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

[Blair Zajac]

Sean O'Neill wrote:
> 
> Not sure how exactly to describe this so I attached the graphics to show
> what I'm "trying" to describe.
> 
> The cricket.png is obviously the results for my qe1 interface from SNMP
> queries by Cricket.  orca.png ... go figure.  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.
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> Any thoughts appreciated.
> 
> Sean O'Neill

That's really odd.  I don't know.

I would drop the same message to the new SE toolkit mailing list and see if
they have anything to say.  Cc'ing this mailing list would be appreciated.

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
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