Jeremy Kister wrote:
On 2/21/2006 5:10 AM, Robin Becker wrote:
Our freeBSD 6.0 host is not yet in production, but appears to have outgoing
traffic of around 140Mb/day; the http logs say 16 hits etc. The host provider
said this
140Mb/day is really not that much.
Unless my math is wrong because it's past bed time:
140Mb/day divided by 86400 seconds per day = 0.001 Mb/second (average)
0.001 Mb/second = 1.659 Kb/second
this means a dialup modem could handle your average traffic.
and remember Mb is Megabits, not MegaBytes.
"The server is on a /20-network, and this leads to high amounts of
background traffic (ARP, broadcast, etc.). These traffic types are
likely to be the reason for most of your outbound traffic."
Is your server's netmask 255.255.240.0 ??? If it is, call your
provider, laugh at them, and then call a new provider. If your netmask
is not 255.255.240.0, call the person who gave you that line, laugh at
them, and try to find someone more intelligent :)
You're surely not on a subnet with 4000 hosts.
ifconfig says this
vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet xx.zz.yy.vv netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast xx.zz.ww.255
ether ..............
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
so should I be seeking another provider?
I'm not sure I follow this argument. Does this mean I'm responding to large
number of spurious requests? The provider's analysis of the input volume is
pretty small (0Mb).
If you were on a network with 4000 other machines, it could certainly
cause problems. But i'd bet that someone is just confused -- i'd bet
that their entire network space is a /20, and they have allocated a
small part of it for your network.
--
Robin Becker
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