From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 11 13:47:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18719 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:47:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18558 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from trojanhorse.pr.watson.org (trojanhorse.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.10]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id QAA14124; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:46:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:46:10 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Christopher Sedore cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network counters -> 64bit? In-Reply-To: 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 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