Lack of IPv6 traffic stats makes judging progress difficult

Tassos Chatzithomaoglou achatz at forthnet.gr
Tue May 24 22:32:48 CEST 2011


Anyone tried ipIfStatsIPVersion under IP-MIB?

That (in combination with other oids) should do the job, but i haven't 
found a single platform that supports it, although CCO says otherwise.

--
Tassos


Gert Doering wrote on 24/05/2011 23:00:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 03:16:09PM -0400, chip wrote:
>    
>> As a note, if you're collecting traffic on 6500/7600's you can get
>> this by running the 'show interfaces accounting' command.  But you can
>> only use the outbound counters, the inbound counters do not include
>> hardware switched packets.
>>      
> Actually, it's worse - hardware switched IPv6 packets are counted on
> the IP*v4* counters.
>
> Cisco says it's a chip limitation...
>
> (We noticed this when we had a backbone link that only transitted IPv6
> packets, but the IPv4 counters increased happily... opened a TAC case,
> TAC could reproduce it, engineering came back with "wontfix" and so
> the documentation was adjusted...)
>
> Gert Doering
>          -- NetMaster
>    


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