In agreement with a point in the end, i too was thinking lan to lan
traffic..
Brian "Sonic" Whalen
Success = Preparation + Opportunity
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, ElephantChild wrote:
> Resend following the list crash - apologies for any duplicates
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: ElephantChild
> To: Andy Low
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:58:33 +0200 (CEST)
> Subject: Re: unknown Traffic [7:7129]
> Organization: (noun) 1. the act or process of organizing. 2. the state
> of being organized. 3. a body of persons acting together
> for some purpose.
>
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Andy Low wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Hope somebody can enlighten me.
> >
> > I got this router 2 uplinks and 1 connected to my LAN. When I performed
"sh
> > int" on the respective interfaces, this was the result:
> >
> > Uplink 1:
> >
> > 5 minute input rate 501000 bits/sec, 373 packets/sec
> > 5 minute output rate 1748000 bits/sec, 330 packets/sec
> >
> > Uplink 2:
> >
> > 5 minute input rate 749000 bits/sec, 735 packets/sec
> > 5 minute output rate 23912000 bits/sec, 2762 packets/sec
> >
> > LAN interface:
> >
> > 5 minute input rate 36780000 bits/sec, 4011 packets/sec
> > 5 minute output rate 13476000 bits/sec, 2096 packets/sec
> >
> > Can someone explain to me why when 36M of traffic went into my LAN
> interface
> > (input), only less than 26M were threw out to the Uplinks (output)
>
> Hard to say whether that explains it without knowing how packet sizes
> are distributed on your network, but remember that typically, LAN (level
> 2) protocols have much larger headers than WAN level 2 protocols.
>
> Another possible explanation is that packets going into an interface get
> out of that same interface. Total input rate is 38030000 bps, vs a total
> output rate of 39136000 bps, which is much closer (about 2.5% vs 33%),
> and even more so when you look at packet rates (5119 pps input vs. 5188
> pps output, which are within 1.5% of each other). Does that suggest
> anything?
>
> --
> "Someone approached me and asked me to teach a javascript course. I was
> about to decline, saying that my complete ignorance of the subject made
> me unsuitable, then I thought again, that maybe it doesn't, as driving
> people away from it is a desirable outcome." --Me
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