[165645] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Tue Sep 17 07:02:21 2013
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:02:08 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com>
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On 17/09/2013 11:52, 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?
most IXPs count this as the sum of all ingress packets over a period of 300
seconds. A small number of IXPs do different stuff, e.g. different
sampling interval or counting traffic on inter-switch links.
Nick
