[c-nsp] Traffic stats on SVIs

[Seth Mattinen]

Jee Kay wrote:
> On 11/06/06, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> 
>> I know that a Cat6500 will give you all these counters (but it will NOT
>> give you MAC-Accounting on LAN interfaces).
> 
> What about in the routing world? Do only higher-end routers support
> this aswell (I assume it would be per-subif rather than per-SVI on a
> router) or can I poll reliable stats from 2600s?
> 

Routers don't have this quirk; traffic is usually software switched and 
the counters are accurate. Low and mid range L3 switches switch in 
hardware, and thus the software counters aren't accurate until you get 
in to the high end. This is my impression, anyway.

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