Description: The total number of octets of data (including those in bad packets) received on the network (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets).

If the network is half-duplex Fast Ethernet, this object can be used as a reasonable estimate of utilization. If greater precision is desired, the etherStatsHighCapacityPkts and etherStatsHighCapacityOctets objects should be sampled before and after a common interval. The differences in the sampled values are Pkts and Octets, respectively, and the number of seconds in the interval is Interval. These values are used to calculate the Utilization as follows:

Pkts * (.96 + .64) + (Octets * .08) Utilization = ------------------------------------- Interval * 10,000

The result of this equation is the value Utilization which is the percent utilization of the ethernet segment on a scale of 0 to 100 percent.

This table is not appropriate for monitoring full-duplex ethernets. If the network is a full-duplex ethernet and the mediaIndependentTable is monitoring that network, the utilization can be calculated as follows:

1) Determine the utilization of the inbound path by using the appropriate equation (for ethernet or fast ethernet) to determine the utilization, substituting mediaIndependentInPkts for etherStatsHighCapacityPkts, and mediaIndependentInOctets for etherStatsHighCapacityOctets. Call the resulting utilization inUtilization.

2) Determine the utilization of the outbound path by using the same equation to determine the utilization, substituting mediaIndependentOutPkts for etherStatsHighCapacityPkts, and mediaIndependentOutOctets for etherStatsHighCapacityOctets. Call the resulting utilization outUtilization.

3) The utilization is the maximum of inUtilization and outUtilization. This metric shows the amount of percentage of bandwidth that is left before congestion will be experienced on the link.