From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 11 13:42:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17058 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:42:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailer.syr.edu (mailer.syr.edu [128.230.20.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17009 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:41:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu) Received: from rodan.syr.edu by mailer.syr.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.968448C0@mailer.syr.edu>; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:41:49 -0500 Received: from localhost (cmsedore@localhost) by rodan.syr.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA20561 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:41:43 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rodan.syr.edu: cmsedore owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:41:43 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Sedore X-Sender: cmsedore@rodan.syr.edu To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Network counters -> 64bit? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm currently wrapping my packet counts on about a 5-7 day interval on my FreeBSD box (yes, 4+ billion packets incoming and 4+ billion outgoing). I began to wonder if there was work underway to move the network interface, ip stack, etc packet counters to 64 bits. This box has been up for 48 days under this load without difficulty, and I'd like to be able to gather stats without concern for counter wrapping... -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message