[f-nsp] Determining throughput

[Chris Cameron]

I may have asked the wrong question. We have a number of utilities
that watch our traffic come and go. My problem was that the router
itself (through using 'show interfaces ethernet 1/1') is showing a
value way off of our other methods of watching throughput.

I was hoping someone could say "well that's a terribly inaccurate way
to look at bandwidth on a router", so I could continue on trusting the
load balancer and Zenoss graphs.

So, can I expect accurate numbers from using 'show interfaces ethernet
1/1' and looking at '300 second output rate:'?

Thanks,
Chris

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Arnold Nipper <arnold at nipper.de> wrote:
> On 03.02.2009 18:41 Chris Cameron wrote
>
>> How might I determine how much traffic we're pushing out to the
>> internet through our BigIron RX-4?
>>
>> Using 'show interfaces ethernet 1/1' and looking at '300 second output
>> rate:' doesn't seem to provide an accurate number as it's WAY lower
>> than our load balancer says it's putting out to the internet.
>>
>>
>
> Using MRTG (http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/) w/ small polling intervall does
> not work for you?
>
>
>
> Arnold
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