On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > 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?
I use the IP accounting rules in the 2.0.x kernels, works very well with MRTG for real bandwidth stats. Jason