On 17/09/2013 11:52, Martin T wrote: > Is there a common method to count this traffic on a switch-fabric? > Just read all the switch interface "packets input" counters with an > interval to get the aggregated input traffic and read all the switch > interfaces "packets output" counters to get the aggregated output > traffic?
most IXPs count this as the sum of all ingress packets over a period of 300 seconds. A small number of IXPs do different stuff, e.g. different sampling interval or counting traffic on inter-switch links. Nick
