Or using a diferent approach...

For example havin a Byte counter and also a Kbyte or Mbyte (do I hear
Gbyte?) counter...

This would make 32bits much less prone to wrap-around , as the problem is
actualling having only 32bits to count bytes...

A Kbyte scaler would be nice (4294967295Kbytes = 4095Gb which far larger,
and keeping track of each byte on the network is actually too minute INMHO)

Pedro

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Warren [mailto:maillist at devilsplayground dot net] 
Sent: sábado, 30 de Outubro de 2004 23:45
To: ALFREDO GONZALEZ
Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Status: Inteface question


ALFREDO GONZALEZ wrote:

>Hello,
>
>1- The numbers reset back to zero after 4294967295. it is not a bug, 
>but a limit on the 32bit counters used. You will find this in pretty much
any
>system that uses 32bit counters.
>  
>
While true, that's no excuse.  It's not that hard for the system to 
track the number of rollovers, and present the information in a 
<rollovercount>x4GB+<bytecount>B format and let the user do the math if 
they want.

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