[mrtg] Re: Minimum hardware requirement to prevent data dropping

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 03:08:37AM +0800, adrian at nikoyo.com wrote:

> There have been time when the data just suddenly drop, especially during
> peak period.  I am suspecting that it could be insufficient hardware power
> to generate the statistic.

Sure?  It wouldn't be when traffic may have hit 8*2^32/300 bps, would it?

> In your experience, what's the min. hardware requirement to calculate
> bandwidth that's over 110M traffic.

8*2^32/300 bps = 114532461 bps; I guess you ment to write "over 110 Mbps".

Search the archives/google for "counter wrap", "32-bit" and similar.

Alex
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