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Newbie... Trying to monitor traffic thru a 1600 series router

larrybryant
Level 1
Level 1

Sorry in advance for my newbie-ness. I've got a 56K frame relay line that the phone company says I'm putting about 86K on. When I get on my router, (hyperterminal) it seems like I can find out tons of info - but not the actual traffic in/out of the router.

What's the magic word(s) I'm looling for?

Thanks in advance

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deilert
Level 6
Level 6

you can do this rather easy

On your serial interface it shoes 5 minute input/output rate see below

GigabitEthernet0/3 is up, line protocol is up

Hardware is BCM1250 Internal MAC, address is 0005.9ae9.f019 (bia 0005.9ae9.f019)

MTU 1500 bytes, BW 10000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,

reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255

Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set

Keepalive set (10 sec)

Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, link type is force-up, media type is LX

output flow-control is XON, input flow-control is XON

ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00

Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never

Last clearing of "show interface" counters never

Input queue: 0/75/42/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0

Queueing strategy: fifo

Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)

5 minute input rate 10556000 bits/sec, 1678 packets/sec

5 minute output rate 13685000 bits/sec, 4366 packets/sec

897675130 packets input, 4235279523 bytes, 0 no buffer

Received 0 broadcasts, 2 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles

0 input errors, 2 CRC, 0 frame, 72 overrun, 0 ignored

0 watchdog, 83855 multicast, 0 pause input

2 input packets with dribble condition detected

1356347449 packets output, 1424650700 bytes, 0 underruns

0 output errors, 0 collisions, 5 interface resets

0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred

5 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 pause output

0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

This is what you want to look at , however , this is just an average over 5 minutes , you can change this value to something lower

router#conf t

router#(conf)int s0/0

router#(conf-if)load-interval 30

this will calcualte the load over a 30 second period

by using the 'sh int s0/0 command'

If the information in the show interface seems to garbled, do a show interface summary. It gives you the summary of the traffic statistics. Eg

*: interface is up

IHQ: pkts in input hold queue IQD: pkts dropped from input queue

OHQ: pkts in output hold queue OQD: pkts dropped from output queue

RXBS: rx rate (bits/sec) RXPS: rx rate (pkts/sec)

TXBS: tx rate (bits/sec) TXPS: tx rate (pkts/sec)

TRTL: throttle count

Interface IHQ IQD OHQ OQD RXBS RXPS TXBS TXPS TRTL

----------------------------------------------------------------------

* Ethernet1/0 0 534 0 0 3000 3 217000 21 0

* Ethernet1/1 0 0 0 0 217000 20 0 0 0

It is often a quicker way to know the traffic through all the interface.

rizwan.afzal
Level 1
Level 1

You can monitor your link via MRTG over a period of time to verify the load on the link. Please see this URL for information on MRTG (its a free utility but requires some effort to install and configure)

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

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