Byte counters reset at ~4GB

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Mon Mar 15 16:18:49 PST 2004


Max Laier said:

> There is now: pf comes with 64bit statistic counters. For now you can put
> them on one interface only, but in future version there will be more
> flexible statistics. Additionally there are many accounting programs out
> there which utilize various existing (32bit) counters or the [i]pf[w]
> interfaces: sysutils/ipa or net-mgmt/ipacctd to name just two off the top
> of
> my head.

Well that's good to hear. Too bad the base system can’t implement
something like this. Does pf not incur the same performance penalty as
Brooks and Kris pointed out?



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