On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, der.hans wrote:

> Am 10. Apr, 2002 schwätzte Bill Nash so:
> > are incremental from zero to 2^32 (for 32 bit counters), and reflect a
> > rolling total. When it reaches the limit for the counter, it rolls over to
> > 0 and starts over. Some router and switch vendors do provide rate
>
> Yeah, I knew I left that out. It'll come up in the SNMP docs :).
> He's not gonna roll the counters over in a day.
>
> OK, wasn't certain how MRTG works. So can you get it to mark the counters at
> the beginning and end of the day? Maybe change it to average out 24 hours
> rather than 5 min?
>

	I don't think he'd want to. Keeping the five minute polling
interval gives a much better data set to work with when figuring out how
and when traffic is exceeding expectations. Log files can be correlated,
et cetera.

- billn