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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > > It's very interesting to see the traffic stats at > > http://www.ams-ix.net/hugegraph.html Usually, incoming and outgoing > > traffic is the same. But during this problem, much more traffic went out > > than came in. > > Curious, as the exchange sources no traffic that shouldnt really be possible ;) > > (unless the graphs are inaccurate) If there is something nasty happening with STP, or traffic is flooding, you will count the same traffic several times - once for each egress port that it hits - hence aggregate traffic out > traffic in. Broadcast traffic is also counted multiple times in aggregated stats. Mike
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