Re: PerfHist-TC-MIB

Keith McCloghrie <kzm@cisco.com> Wed, 03 June 1998 16:30 UTC

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From: Keith McCloghrie <kzm@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: PerfHist-TC-MIB
To: abbira@aur.alcatel.com
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 09:14:01 -0700
Cc: heard@vvnet.com, atommib@thumper.bellcore.com, trunk-mib@external.cisco.com
In-Reply-To: <357551C3.36E6@aur.alcatel.com> from "Rajesh Abbi" at Jun 3, 98 09:38:11 am
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> The 'Perf***Count' objects are supposed to be 'monotonically increasing'
> -
> thus Counter32/Counter64 would have been a better representation. 

This is incorrect.  For each of these objects, its value in one interval 
can be smaller than its value in the preceeding interval.

Keith.