From: Jay Hennigan (jay@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 20:30:21 GMT-3
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Dan Pontrelli wrote:
> I was trying to think of all the possible problems an incorrect bandwidth
> statement can cause.
> I have the following so far:
>
> 1)Inaccurate metric calculation by routing protocols
> 2) Inaccurate "load" reported by the router interface
> 3)Report the wrong information regarding bandwidth utilization if SNMP
> polling is being performed ?
>
> I'm not sure about #3
Number 3 is definitely true. MRTG is a very popular bandwidth utilization
tool and it uses the "bandwidth" statement for calculating the usage as a
percentage of the available bandwidth.
Note that the bandwidth statement doesn't affect the data passed in response
to an SMNP poll, but the configured bandwidth itself can be polled and used
as a parameter by the external bandwidth monitoring tool.
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