Burton Strauss III wrote:
If you read way back in the list, this is a known item.
The various NICs report different things for the counters (some total, some
# since last read). ntop tries to figure out which way the NIC is
reporting, but can be fooled (esp. if the counts are low (and of course, we
recommend running ntop on it's own system, so it should start up before
there is a lot of traffic and that just makes it worse: there's no easy way
to distinguish between the two types of reporting)
If you look at ifconfig, you are seeing un-interpreted counters without any
smarts so it doesn't look funny. If ntop gets it wrong ... well, we check
the counter when we refresh and so the 'faster you refresh the wackier it
gets' is he give-away. But, that's just a pass through from the NIC it's
not ntop losing them.
Just ignore it, nothing other than not passing along the info can be done.
-----Burton
Thanks for the clarification Burton I sort remember reading something
like that. It would be nice to have a method to reset that specific
counter or as Gary said to switch to the other method manually once you
notice your system got it wrong.
-Mike
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