[38319] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 95th Percentile again (was RE: C&W Peering Problem?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Sun Jun 3 13:33:58 2001
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:34:08 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>,
"Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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> i'm not super-duper, but i'm tier2 and the bulk of my business is wholesale
> (the basic service is a connection and transit, nothing else).
>
> most of my customers are ethernet connected, and some customers share
> an interface. i got into this before it was cheap to do 802.11q
> switching, so my billing system needed to deal with multiple customers
> on a single ethernet.
Thats irrelevant; look at the counters on the customers switch-port.
Doesn't matter what VLAN (or none) they are on.
> however, the rollover issues were starting to become apparent.
> fortuneately with the BSD and cache flow stuff, i get 64bit counters.
As does any modern-day IOS (except for some reason, 64 bit counters seem
broken on Cat 3500 XLs; anyone else seen this?)
> its working for me.
Is it? Have you verified that, in actuality, it is accurate?
Having done a small-bit of verification on flowstats versus counting bytes
via SNMP, i have caught some interesting anamolies.
