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Re: SNMPD - MRTG- PPP stats iregularity



On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:48:19 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:

>Linux doesn't ordinarily have any facility for saying _how much_ data
>goes through an if. The snmpd's base their throughput figures on
>_number of packets_, which isn't exactly the same thing. IIRC, you can
>run ip accounting and hack the snmpd's to get their numbers via that
>mechanism.

    Well, that blows.  Packets don't mean diddly compared to bytes when it
comes to bandwidth utilization.  Do you know if that will be fixed any time
soon?  2.1.* maybe?

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