Re: help with interfaces group
Greg Fisher <fisher@tinton.ccur.com> Sat, 07 August 1993 03:26 UTC
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Subject: Re: help with interfaces group
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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1993 20:05:45 +0000
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From: Greg Fisher <fisher@tinton.ccur.com>
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In-Reply-To: <9308061621.AA08762@us1rmc.bb.dec.com> from "Anil Rijsinghani" at Aug 6, 93 12:21:37 pm
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[ Anil writes ] > > Here are some answers. By the way, the enet_mib@ftp.com mailing list > would be a better place to ask these questions. > ... > > > 8) Although the MIB says that ifInOctets should include "framing characters", > > my hardware doesn't provide any indication of the length of the received > > preamble. Should I ignore the preamble or add an estimate (8 bytes per > > packet) to the total count? > > Don't include preamble. Why not? The way I thought about it was that the preamble was using available bandwidth on account of a given transmission, and so represents part of the "framing" overhead which was being referred to in rfc1213. BTW, I thought the dot3 preamble was 7 bytes. No? Does it vary? ... > Anil Greg Fisher
- Re: help with interfaces group (long) Anil Rijsinghani
- Re: help with interfaces group Greg Fisher