Counter element: rate handler

[Arvind Venkatesan]

Hi all,

The documentation for the counter element says that the rate handler 
returns the recent arrival rate (measured by exponential weighted moving
average) in packets/bytes per second.

When I use Pokehandlers to print the rate, I see the rate in
packets/second.

Is there anyway that I can get the rate in bytes/second especially if
variable length packets 
are being received on one end? 

Thanks a lot.

-arvind