Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:46:10 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network counters -> 64bit? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311164422.18866M-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.980311163301.9263A-100000@rodan.syr.edu>
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On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Christopher Sedore wrote: > 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... My counters wrap within a day for bytes transmitted/received on various interfaces, and this can make it hard to sample network usage for monitoring purposes. I'd hate to see how fast ftp.cdrom.com goes. :) It would be helpful to have better network statistics kept; 32 bits just ain't that much any more. :) Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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