[nsp] 64 bit SNMP counters versus 32 bit SNMP counters

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

It can take another 2^32 bytes (or whatever) before it wraps.

eg a 32-bit counter on a gig port running at a few 100 Mbs will wrap very often, 
if you dont poll it frequently enough you are unable to calculate the difference 
in the counter and your results are garbled.

Steve

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 m.rapoport at completel.fr wrote:

> Hello all,
> There was a recent discussion about this topic on the list.
> Forgive me for this dumb question, but could someone briefly describe
> in practice the enhancement that a 64 bit counter provides on a 32 bit
> counter ?
> 
> Regards,
>             Marc.
> 
> 
> 
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