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- RTACCT Utility
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- Robert Olsson
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- some_negative_number, 20 Dec 2001
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- Here is some code for monitoring the route cache. For systems handling
- high network load, servers, routers, firewalls etc the route cache and
- its garbage collection is crucial. Linux has a solid implementation.
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- The kernel patch (not required since linux-2.4.7) adds statistics
- counters from route cache process into /proc/net/rt_cache_stat. A
- companion user mode program presents the statistics in a vmstat or
- iostat manner. The ratio between cache hits and misses gives the flow
- length.
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- Hopefully it can help understanding performance and DoS and other
- related issues.
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- An URL where newer versions of this utility can be (probably) found is
- ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/rt_cache_stat/
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- Description
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- The format of the command is:
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- rtstat [ OPTIONS ]
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- OPTIONS are:
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- * -h, -help - show help page and version of the utility.
- * -i INTERVAL - interval between snapshots, default value is 2
- seconds.
- * -s NUMBER - whether to print header line. 0 inhibits header line,
- 1 prescribes to print it once and 2 (this is default setting)
- forces header line each 20 lines.
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