[e2e] Extracting No. of packets or bytes in a router buffer

[Denio Mariz]

>
> I am really impressed to know it is so difficult to grab this kind of
> information, since router manufacturers claim they can do magic with  queue
> managing, like diffser, traffic shaping, priority queueing, etc... all of
> this looking at the queues and making tricks with them.
>
I'm supposing that all these magic are done through accessing the
information directly, internally in the router. So, I think the real
issue here is how frequently the counters are updated into the MIB for
external access.

Denio.