Hi! Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB