Byte count wrapping?

David lists at edeca.net
Tue Apr 14 10:21:52 EDT 2009


Quoting Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com>:
> All the ra* programs use 64-bit numbers for counters, so you're probably not
> rolling over, but, seems like you're on to the issue.  When you  
> print a field, it is
> constrained by the field's width specifier.  The default field width  
> for 'bytes' is
> 12 characters, and the default for 'pkts' is 8 characters.
>
> To change the width, append a ":len" (where the len is an integer)  
> to the field
> specifier, either on the command line, or in your ra.conf file.

Oops, "wrapping" was not the best word to use!

Thanks for the help, that's great.

David



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