Direction of src and dest

Carter Bullard carter at qosient.com
Thu May 31 11:36:58 EDT 2007


Hey Robert,
In order to understand what the racount stats are, we need to see the
individual records.  Could you send just:
   ra -r /tmp.outfile - dst host 10.22.96.10 and src host 10.22.97.107

Carter


Robert Leyba wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to get clarification on the src and dest hosts on the ra 
> commands.
> In the example below, I sent a 7531 byte file via ftp from 
> 10.22.97.107 to 10.22.96.10.
>  
> The output is as follows:
>  
> root at cpocts:/tmp#
> root at cpocts:/tmp# racount -r /tmp/outfile - dst host 10.22.96.10 and 
> src host 10.22.97.107 -L0
> racount records total_pkts src_pkts dst_pkts total_bytes src_bytes 
> dst_bytes
> sum 5 24 14 10 1722 889 833
> root at cpocts:/tmp# racount -r /tmp/outfile - src host 10.22.96.10 and 
> dst host 10.22.97.107 -L0
> racount records total_pkts src_pkts dst_pkts total_bytes src_bytes 
> dst_bytes
> sum 2 14 6 8 8339 362 7977
> root at cpocts:/tmp <mailto:root at cpocts:/tmp>#
>  
> Why does the ouput seem to be the other way around.  If I query the 
> source to be 10.22.97.107 and the dest to be 10.22.96.10 I get only 
> 1722 bytes, which doesn't make sense...as the REAL source is 
> 10.22.97.107 sending data to 10.22.96.10.
>  
> Thanks for any info.
>  
> --robert
>
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