[mrtg] How mrtg counts used bandwith?

[Alexey V. Panfilov]

Hi everyone!

I've the question: how mrtg counts used bandwidth of high-loaded ports?

AFAIK, mrtg uses ifInOctets.PORT_NUM and ifOutOctets.PORT_NUM OIDs.
For example, I've Cisco3560G and I got next result:
IF-MIB::ifOutOctets.10128 = Counter32: 1751739669
but Counter32 can have maximum value of 2^32-1.
So, if I've traffic around 1Gbit/sec on this port Counter will reset to 
zero around 30 sec, but mrtg collects data every 5 min...

Please, explain me mrtg's algorithm...

P.S. Sorry for bad english

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