Subject: Re: Resetting ip, icmp etc statistics
To: matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/31/2006 20:54:13
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:13:53PM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
>
> This is a very convenient feature even in production. These counters
> are reset when the system is rebooted anyway, so it's just as well to
> allow them to be reset without that power cycle. I don't see how this
> adversely affect SNMP monitoring at all. It simply eases
> troubleshooting.
SNMP will obtain the system boot time (or similar) and use that to
know when the counters are reset.
Counter wrapping can be assumed to happen at the power of 2 above the
last reading.
David
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