Byte counters reset at ~4GB

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Mon Mar 15 16:14:21 PST 2004


Brooks Davis said:
>
> Please read the archives of freebsd-net.  This has been discussed
> many times.  There are valid reasons for this, particularly the fact
> that 64-bit counters are much more expensive to update on 32-bit
> architectures.  API breakage is also a problem.  We're aware that 2^32
> is way to small a limit for modern network counters, but fixing it isn't
> trivial on 32-bit hardware.

Ok then, thats too bad. Sorry for the noise.



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