On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 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.
>
> Aliases (even not saying about "addresses") do not receive and do not send
> anything, sorry.
>
But packets can "appear;->" to be coming from an aliased IP. Also
packets could be addresses to a virtual address. Could it be
defined as a link from that perspective? And it seems to make sense to
keep count of such packets.
Maybe it is logical to have a physical ifindex + counters as well
as virtual ones (i,e ifindex+counter). I dont think current SNMP standards
support that; but then i am no expert there.
>
> > 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)
>
Do you mean, netdevice? ;-> I have seen interface being abused to mean a
lot of things (eg the packet munging, such as routing, is refered by some
people as "interface").
cheers,
jamal
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