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Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Sep 17 06:59:25 2013

Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:58:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJx5YvF-vL2k4tLRZ5ZcD_BYgr-pXF7f619qSdhpFAFiRtuJ=g@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Martin T wrote:

> Is there a common method to count this traffic on a switch-fabric? Just 
> read all the switch interface "packets input" counters with an interval 
> to get the aggregated input traffic and read all the switch interfaces 
> "packets output" counters to get the aggregated output traffic?

Yes, as far as I have understood it's a sum of all traffic on all 
customer-facing ports.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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