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- From: Allan Leinwand <leinwand@cisco.com>
- Subject: Re: MORE ON COUNTERS !!
- In-Reply-To: <BxEsoI.973@ibmpcug.co.uk>; from "Bob Kilgore" at Nov 8, 92 6:00 pm
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 1:20:17 PST
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- Hello Bob,
-
- >This then brings up the question, what is the maximum value a counter
- >can reach? Are all counters the same? Am I going crazy? I have just
- >re-read the 8.2, 8.3, and 9.0 documentation, for the third time,
- >and I cant find any reference to the max. value.
-
- A Counter is a data type defined in RFC1155, The Structure and
- Identification of Management Information (SMI), which defines all the
- data types used in SNMP. All the objects which are of type Counter in
- the cisco MIB conform to this definition. Here is the excerpt from
- RFC1155:
-
- 3.2.3.3. Counter
-
- This application-wide type represents a non-negative integer which
- monotonically increases until it reaches a maximum value, when it
- wraps around and starts increasing again from zero. This memo
- specifies a maximum value of 2^32-1 (4294967295 decimal) for
- counters.
-
- If you need any help from us at Cisco, please feel free to drop us a
- note at cs@cisco.com.
-
- --
- Thanks,
-
- Allan Leinwand
- cisco Systems
- (415) 688-7653
- leinwand@cisco.com
-