Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 11:17:28 +0300 (EET DST) From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: kern/3738: Byte and packet counters in ipfw overflow quickly Message-ID: <199706010817.LAA28038@plentium.clinet.fi> Resent-Message-ID: <199706010820.BAA12912@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 3738 >Category: kern >Synopsis: Byte and packet counters in ipfw overflow quickly >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jun 1 01:20:01 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Heikki Suonsivu >Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386 >Environment: 2.2-CURRENT >Description: fw_pcnt and fw_bcnt fields in ip_fw are u_long. A 2 Mbps link wraps over in just four hours. This forces building some kind of collector program which reads and resets the counters quickly enough to save the information. These should be 64 bit values ? >How-To-Repeat: try to use ipfw to collect usage statistics in a busy network. >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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