Hello,
We're trying to set up MRTG on a Debian box, just upgraded from Woody
to Sarge. It's showing zero usage on a very busy server. Some
investigation reveals that the byte counters are maxed out:
# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:B0:D0:F0:82:85
inet addr:64.18.229.153 Bcast:64.18.229.159
Mask:255.255.255.240
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:130848069 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:130666040 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:4294967295 (3.9 GiB) TX bytes:4294967295 (3.9 GiB)
Interrupt:17
Those "RX bytes" and "TX bytes" numbers are the same ones that show up
in /proc/net/dev,
snmpget -v 1 ... 'ifOutOctets.2'
snmpget -v 1 ... 'ifInOctets.2'
and MRTG's log files, and of course in /usr/include/limits.h as
ULONG_MAX.
We're running kernel 2.4.19.
Is there a way to reset those counters, or make them bigger? The box
is very busy, and probably transfers 4GB of data in a day or so, so
rebooting every day isn't really a good option.
Would upgrading the kernel help?
Thanks!
----ScottG.
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