Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on receive Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets From: john slee (indigoid@higherplane.net) Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 09:52:13 EST Next message: Hugh Dickins: "Re: 2.4.18 no timestamp update on modified mmapped files" Previous message: Denis Vlasenko: "Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 Nonlinear CPU support" In reply to: Lincoln Dale: "Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets" Next in thread: Mark Mielke: "Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets" Reply: Mark Mielke: "Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets" Reply: Lincoln Dale: "Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ trimmed cc ] On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:28:15PM +1000, Lincoln Dale wrote: > right now, those bills are anywhere between 10% to 25% incorrect. 10-25% is roughly equivalent to the hit rates i've seen on my web caches in real life, with MANY users. i can't believe people are actually using this for data accounting. i also can't think of many decent "free" (whatever your interpretation of that is) ways to do it either. interface packet counters wrap around, most commercial firewalls i've used have inaccurate or incomplete logging (to put it lightly), and packet sniffers sometimes can't keep up. surely if profit (or just keeping your head above the water) is the goal you can justify the necessary resources to use something like netflow, a product designed to do exactly what you seem to want, among other things. (search cisco.com, and no, i'm not a cisco employee) fiddling the network stack so that you can do dubious hacks in an allegedly apparently dubious aspect of squid just doesn't seem to be the ideal way to fix this problem. regards, j.
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