Re: SNMPD - MRTG- PPP stats iregularity
Hi!
Steve Lamb (morpheus@teleute.ml.org):
> 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?
Yes. 2.1 counts bytes in /proc/net/dev. But IIRC there are still some
NIC-drivers which don't supply these numbers. tulip does. I've no clue about
SNMPD, but I suppose you'll have to teach it to use the byte counters, too.
Rainer
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