On Sep 17, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net> wrote:
I don't know of any IXP that does this. Industry standard is as you and others wrote before: the 5-minute counter difference on all customer-facing ports, publishing both input and output bps and pps. I guess MRTG is to 'blame' for these values more than anything.
Serious question, at an IXP shouldn't IN = OUT nearly perfectly? Most exchanges do everything possible to eliminate broadcast packets, and they don't allow multicast on the unicast VLAN's. So properly behaved you have a bunch of routers speaking unicast to each other. The only way to get a difference is if there is packet loss, IN - loss = OUT. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/