[c-nsp] Cacti graph on same interface

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Jun 8 07:04:02 EDT 2011


On 06/08/2011 11:35 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 08/06/2011 10:15, Phil Mayers wrote:
>> The first will never read >100mbit/sec. The second will read
>> correctly, so
>> if you're doing >100mbit/sec they'll look different.
>
> about 112mbit/sec. So if you see graphs pegged at ~112mbit/sec, you know
> you're running into a 32-bit counter limitation.
>
> snmpv1+32 bit counters are pretty useless these days. I wish Cacti would
> print up a large warning when people attempted to use these oids because
> they cause lots of breakage.

Indeed. Frankly, it's damn annoying Cacti doesn't just "figure it out", 
at least for standard counters where the 64-bit alternatives are well 
known. But that's really the least of it's warts!


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