Re: routable interfaces

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:23:40PM +0300, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > an issue. secondary addresses for example do not have counters. You have a
> > counters per ifindex only.
> 
> Statistics has a sense only per link.
In case of error counters yes, but it make sense to me to have separate 
counters for rx\tx bytes
per IP address. After all I want to know how much traffic we routed from one 
subnet to another.

> 
> Aliases (even not saying about "addresses") do not receive and do not send
> anything, sorry.
> 
> 
> > useful. It's sort of tricky if you want to generalize for all sorts if
> > tunnels etc;
> 
> When you have set of hundred of tunnels, any trick allowing
> to put an order there loses name "trick" and acquires name
> "interface". 8)8)
> 
> Alexey
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                        Gleb.