Re: netdev.stats change suggestion

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:24:22AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

    We should make them 64-bit because related SNMP MIBs use 64-bits.

(1) Do we need atomic add/sub for any of these?  If so, making them
    64-bit sucks terribly.

(2) What can't snmpd detect and deal with wrap?  I know for certain
    SNMP operations things are supposed to be strictly increasing for
    the life-time the machine is up --- but is this really a big deal?
    SNMP albeit a very useful thing and times, is also horribly crude
    and has some terrible limitations, it alone doesn't seem like a
    good reason to me.


Comments?

  --cw