Re: [nv-l] Collecting ifInOctets ifOutOctets

[John M Gatrell <John.Gatrell@uk.ibm.com>]

From my memory, if it's a Cisco, the
counters are before compression,
and so will give you higher than expected
throughputs.

The Cisco 'show compress' command gives
you more info,
but you then have to add various columns
to work out the true link utilization.

If the compression is done externally
in modem hardware then again the figures
muust be for the uncompressed traffic.

John Gatrell, BA, AIX Cert Specialist,
Cisco CCNA.

>When we collect the ifInOctets & ifOutOctets
of an
>interface which is the one end of a serial link and 
>we have compression on that link, do we collect the
>compressed or the uncompressed octets???