RE: [cobalt-users] [raq4] Site usage statistics and real traffic differ extremely

["Edward R. Milstein" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a tendency to also think you are being BS'ed.  First of all ICMP
packets are all very small and therefore you need lots of them to add up
to one large TCP packet..

I would ask how they are measuring the traffic that is quoting 18 gig...

-ed-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cobalt-users-
> admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of error404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 9:48 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] [raq4] Site usage statistics and real
traffic
> differ extremely
> 
> At 17:34 07/06/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> >I have a leased Raq4 sitting at a provider. I get billed for the
traffic
> >the machine produces. The "Total Usage" statistic under "Site Usage"
> shows
> >a monthly traffic of approximately 6.5 GByte constantly every month.
The
> >provider statistiscs (Ethernet traffic) is over 18(!) GBytes one
month
> and
> >around 8 GByte (normal) the other.
> 
> 
> sounds like you are being bullshitted
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