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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @LukeCage
      last edited by johnpoz

      @lukecage And who says the mikrotik data is correct, maybe its off and the tnsr data is the correct numbers.

      Just at a loss to understand what you expect someone to do with some graphs? Ok not pulling numbers ok, but different values - which one is correct, or closer to correct. How do they average the data, what is the sample rate, etc.. I could see where you might have something to point out if one was showing gigs of data and the other was showing kbits, but one shows max 809 and other shows 701.. But what is the sample rate, is one doing 30 second average, the other doing 60 seconds, etc. Do you have a 3rd sample that corresponds to one of those, or how do you know they are both not wrong..

      its like you had a watch that said it was 11:59:00, and then you brought in 2nd watch is wrong because it says it 11:59:01 -- Who says the first watch time was correct in the first place?

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        LukeCage @johnpoz
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        @johnpoz
        Scanning interval same on both devices - 30 seconds

        I can safely say to you, my traffic usage is progressing stability evening rush hour, I'm monitoring the traffic instantly from mikrotik gui(winbox) There is no 1 gbps difference in 30 seconds.

        Dont have firewall rules or access lists on both device

        Mikrotik snmp show stable traffic usage
        https://prnt.sc/26d3muy

        Tnsr snmp show unstable traffic usage
        https://prnt.sc/26d3n9o

        Traffic usage same on both devices
        Tnsr sending all traffic to mikrotik device

        Note:
        I tried update prtg server
        I tried change snmp community etc and restart service on tnsr side
        I tried reboot tnsr
        My problem is unresolved

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          LukeCage
          last edited by

          new screenshots

          tnsr
          https://prnt.sc/26d8kk1

          mikrotik
          https://prnt.sc/26d8knp

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @LukeCage
            last edited by

            @lukecage still not seeing anything here other than a 2 watch problem.. Which one is correct?

            Maybe your mikrotik smooths the data more than tnsr. Maybe its a difference in whatever your using to graph that, and its polling, or smoothing settings.

            Even if using settings same, take reading every 2 seconds and average last 30 seconds.. if they are not looking at the data at exact same time your going to see differences..

            If you don't like the data your seeing because it doesn't "match" up exactly with some other system doesn't mean there is a snmp bug.. These are 2 different systems.. 2 different OSes, 2 different nics I assume, 2 different drivers, etc. etc..

            Looking at your graphs to me - just looking like one is smoothing more than the other. Or sample time slightly off.. I see increase in data that lines up with increase in data on the other one, I see area that could just be different smoothing applied

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              It could also be a difference in how the two handle the data. For example the Mikrotik may be taking longer to process things and queuing up traffic, where TNSR is pushing it out as soon as it gets it.

              The totals are so close I find it hard to believe there is a problem with the data.

              There are also statistics available via prometheus, which you could try logging instead of SNMP, to see if that makes a difference.

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                LukeCage @johnpoz
                last edited by LukeCage

                @johnpoz

                still not seeing anything here other than a 2 watch problem.. Which one is correct?
                mikrotik device showing true data

                On the tnsr side, there are too many graphic defects

                i tried to install a new tnsr and get data
                dont have any problem https://prnt.sc/26d8tzs

                why i living this problem my main tnsr router i dont know
                https://prnt.sc/26d8ugs

                both tnsr working on reading every 30 seconds

                note: my traffic is progressing stable, as in the screenshot I mentioned on the tnsr side, there is an imbalance in my traffic.

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                  LukeCage
                  last edited by LukeCage

                  i changed scanning interval on both devices

                  tnsr -> 30 seconds to 60 seconds
                  mikrotik 30 seconds to 5 seconds

                  i will share results with you in 40-50 minutes

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    I'm not seeing any defects, just differences in how the traffic is being processed at higher volumes in your environment.

                    TNSR uses VPP which does vector processing which handles multiple packets at the same time, most other things process only one packet at a time (scalar processing). So it makes sense that it would handle large chunks of traffic at once (the peaks) as they come in.

                    https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/What_is_VPP%3F

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                      LukeCage @jimp
                      last edited by LukeCage

                      @jimp

                      hello i found this problem
                      myby have rate limit on snmp

                      dont have any problem on 60 second scanning interval
                      https://prnt.sc/26d93l0

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        Unlikely to be any kind of rate limit. That's just smoothing the peaks/valleys since you're sampling half as often.

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                          LukeCage @jimp
                          last edited by

                          @jimp ah oky thanks
                          this is what i needed

                          Thank you very much for your interest
                          @jimp @johnpoz

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by jimp

                            Also, not a rate limit per se but VPP only updates its counters every 10 seconds:

                            https://docs.netgate.com/tnsr/en/latest/monitoring/interfaces.html#monitoring-interfaces

                            It does that to minimize the load imposed on traffic processing by tracking statistics.

                            So there could be a timing issue there, but again, it all evens out over time.

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                              LukeCage @jimp
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                              @jimp Thank you sir

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