[Orca-users] Re: Question on comparing interface bits/sec reported by ORCA vs SNMP

[Rusty Carruth]

"Sean O'Neill" <soneill at oneill.dhs.org> wrote:
> ...
> The input bits on the 
> interface are basically identical.  This is because I'm NFS mounting a 
> bunch of stuff from an FreeBSD machine on the Solaris system - I'm positive 
> most of this is ORCA processing related and reads for Squid report generation.

I do notice that there is a small difference, but its hard to be sure
with the scales being different...

> Its the output bits that are throwing me.  They are deviate by about 
> 100Kbps with ORCA showing the additional 100Kbps output.  What "additional" 
> bandwidth utilization does Orca see that SNMP doesn't ?

I don't suppose that the SNMP traffic is coming across the same ethernet
port you are measuring statistics on?

If so, is there a chance that SNMP subtracts out its packets?

rc