Re: Clearing in/out stats

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:23:35 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Chris Owen wrote:

> I know this has been asked before and I think the answer was no, but is
> there there any way (besides rebooting) to clear the in/out stats for
> each port?

Rebooting is still the only way.

> If not this would be a _very_ useful feature. The teleco has been

AGREED.

> messing with our lines for the last week so we've been trying to track
> down lines that aren't ringing. If we could reset the in/out stats it
> would be very easy to track this down, but as it is I have to try and
> reboot late at night (and even then I end up kicking people off).
>
> Plus this is one request that actually won't take any significant about
> of code to do (unlike the virtual java machine request ;-]).

Agreed. They should maintain two counters so SNMP agents don't get
confused by reset counters - let people reset the counters in the command
line interface but never reset the SNMP ones.

- Steve
- Systems Manager
- Community Internet Access, Inc..
- Gallup and Grants, New Mexico