Re: Byte Counters on Ciscos

[Dean Anderson <dean () av8 com>]

Cisco stores them as 32 bits, but SNMP also retrieves them as 32 bits.  HP
has a proprietary MIB & impl. for its Lanprobes & RMON s/w for HP
workstations, which is 64 bits wide.  These are the only devices I know of
that store more than 32 bits, and have accurate counts of bytes over a long
period of time.

So on ciscos, you should clear counters before they can roll over.

You should really have a raffle to guess the uptime on your router. ;-)

                --Dean


At 10:46 AM 1/25/1999 -0500, alex () nac net wrote:
> I am working on some byte counting stuff, and have a odd question.
>
> I noticed on my of my routers:
>
>     2403558863 packets input, 2476827328 bytes
>
> thats:
>
>     2,403,558,863 packets input, 
>     2,476,827,328 bytes
>
>
> which when divided out, comes to 1.03 bytes per packet, which without
> saying is obviously in error.
>
> So, when does a Cisco counter 'flip' ? How many bits is it?
>
>
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