[c-nsp] Cisco 3550 counters and QoS

[Yuval Ben-Ari]

> I wouldn't even call it a design flaw.  These just aren't the counters
> you're looking for when it comes to billing.  Assuming it doesn't
exist,
> cisco should seriously consider adding snmp counters to all their
devices
> that rate-limit/shape/police so that you can check both octets/packets
> to/from an interface and octets/packets forwarded to/from it.  If a
10mbit
> policed system is spraying your switch with 100mbit/s of SQL slammer,
> wouldn't you expect to be able to see that via the snmp counters?  If
a
> customer is paying for 10mbit service and rate-limited to it, wouldn't
you
> want to know who's traffic it was if they were being sprayed with
> 100mbit/s of data (though only 10mbit was getting through to them)?

no argument here, I'm just stating what I know