Since these counters are cumulative you have to get the delta, for that divide by 8 for the bits, then divide by the time period to get bits per second (how transmission lines are usually rated).
(Inoctects[t2] - inoctets[t1]) / 8 = bits counted in the time period. For a one minute time period you'd divide this number by 60 to get bits per second. If you gathered your example info in one-minute increments, you'd get appx 640Kbps or about 32% utilization of a 2mbps line. _marlon hickey nemch sr network engineer -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy and Imogen Thomas Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Bits bytes and Octets - Newbie Dear all I am trying to get an alert out of WUP when usage on a 2Mb line goes over a certain amount. 'Get' commands return this value: ifInOctets.23=2178299753 ifOutOctets.23=2485229334 Can anyone number crunch this, (10 digit figure),to help me understand the present usage ? It does not match what appears in our MRTG graph of that interface. Which equals about 1Mb of traffic at peak this morning. Thanks Jeremy.T _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8 is here: Try it free* for 2 months http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
