[f-nsp] Determining throughput

[Harald Michl]

Hi Chris,

On 03.02.2009, at 20:00, Chris Cameron wrote:

> 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.

Perhaps you could specify "way off" a little bit more. Perhaps your  
load balancer shows BYTE per second and the foundry BIT per second?
Which one is higher than the other and is there a constant factor  
between the values?

HTH,
Harald


>
>
> 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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