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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Jesper Skriver <jesper@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: 64 bit counters again
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Jesper Skriver wrote:
> > 2)    The values are not accessible from SNMP, which is
> >       limited to 32 bit counters.
> 
> SNMPv2 can do 64 bit counters ...

Oops.  Looks like you are right; it was a console program
limitation.  Never mind about that argument...

Though I do think doing the calculation is unnecessarily
high overhead for 32 bit processors...

-- Terry

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