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From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
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Subject: kern/3738: Byte and packet counters in ipfw overflow quickly
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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: