[Gllug] Unexpected ADSL firewall data

[Nix]

On 25 Nov 2006, Alex A. Smith spake thusly:

>>I have just seen a log from my IPCop firewall covering the interface that
>>connects to my ADSL modem that shows TX packets just under half of the RX
>>packets, but TX bytes nearly five times the RX bytes.
>
> The counter rolls back over to 0 when it gets to a certain number, think its
> around the 4gig mark, cant remember exactly what it was - this is most
> likely the reason.

That depends. On 64-bit systems (x86-64, SPARC64, MIPS64, et al) the
counters are 64-bit.

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