Re: Linux CMU-SNMP - assumes constant 308 bytes/packet

Erik Schoenfelder (schoenfr@ohura.gaertner.de)
Sat, 12 Jul 97 20:02:47 +0200

Hi!

>From Mark Purcell <msp@pos.apana.org.au>:

Mark> I understand why it was done this way however, maybe you could
Mark> include a note in the known bugs section, to the effect that
Mark> Linux CMU-SNMP assumes a constant 308 bytes/packet over all [...]

Ok, i'll include a note in the manpage.

Mark> Now that the Linux kernel accounting (ipfw) can produce more
Mark> accurate estimates of traffic flow are there any plans afoot
Mark> to include this more accurate data in the Linux CMU-SNMP port?

Since linux kernel 2.1.42 (or 41 ?) /proc/net/dev reports byte and
packet counters and the next release of cmu-snmp for linux will use
these counters (version 3.4 will be released this month, we hope).

However, this affects only our port to linux...

Erik

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