Thank you John,
your answer lead me to a second question:
Is there a way to measure the compressed traffic?
(that is the true traffic on the link?)
TIA
Costas
--- John M Gatrell <John.Gatrell@uk.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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???
>
>
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