[flow-tools] flow-stat: maximum octets value?

[Mark Fullmer]

The maximum value flow-stat can produce is 2^64-1.  2147483647 is
2^31-1 or a signed long on most systems.  Make sure you're processing and
storing the values as 64 bit unsigned integers.

mark

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:41:57PM +0200, Francois Dessart wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use flow-stat to analyse daily statistics for some of my customers.
> The interesting information is the total in/out byte count.
> I then insert those values in a MySQL DB.
> 
> Having a look on it, I find that the same value is occuring often: 2147483647.
> 
> I think this problem is due to the maximum value the byte counter can take in flow-stat.
> How can I change this to permit greater values?
> In which source file?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Francois.
> 
> 
> 
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