<![CDATA[Cosmetic bug: Counters are not measured in bytes]]>On the "Status -> Interfaces", there's a line at the bottom that reads:

"Note: In/out counters will wrap at 32bit (4 Gigabyte) !"

I suspect the word "billion" is meant instead of "Gigabyte" since "4 Gigabyte" describes an amount of storage rather than the maximum number a counter can reach.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/12323/cosmetic-bug-counters-are-not-measured-in-bytesRSS for NodeWed, 15 Apr 2026 20:07:03 GMTFri, 12 Dec 2008 17:28:52 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Cosmetic bug: Counters are not measured in bytes on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:38:00 GMT]]>Ok that would make sense :)
But the 4 Gigabyte in note refers to the amount of data that will be transfered until the counter overflows.

It's not like gigabyte stands next to the error-counter itself.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/186676https://forum.netgate.com/post/186676Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:38:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cosmetic bug: Counters are not measured in bytes on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:17:43 GMT]]>I think the original poster was making the point that the counters on that page are labelled "In/out packets" and "In/out errors" and that neither of these directly measure bytes. So, strictly speaking, they don't wrap at any number of bytes.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/186675https://forum.netgate.com/post/186675Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:17:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cosmetic bug: Counters are not measured in bytes on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:29:28 GMT]]>This is no cosmetical bug.
2^32 = 4'294'967'296 (= 4 Giga)
It means that number of bytes can be transfered until the counter overflows.
After you transfer 4 Gigabyte of data over the firewall the counter will start again at 0 byte.

Gigabyte is not only used to describe how much data can be stored on a device.
It is a general term to quantify data.

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