Re: Show interface command

Well, not entirelly true.
A clear counters will bring counters back to zero, but they will
roll over to zero too when they reach their max.

After all, we have not invented a way to count to infinity
with a fixed size variable :)
That's the reason of SNMP counters going to 64 bits.
2^64 = 16 x 2^60 ~= 16 x 10^18 which is kind of large though.

-Carlos

Iwan Hoogendoorn @ 27/10/2009 5:27 -0300 dixit:
> Hi,
>
>
> These values are variable:
> 5 minute input rate 180000 bits/sec, 121 packets/sec
> 5 minute output rate 1237000 bits/sec, 148 packets/sec
>
> These values are only increasing unless a "clear counters" is issued:
> 1807485647 packets input, 4267040170 bytes
> 0 input packets with dribble condition detected
> 2039691484 packets output, 2256843793 bytes, 0 underruns
>

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