On Wednesday 19 March 2008 08:37:21 Tronn Wærdahl wrote: > If you do a ifconfig eth0 you get some info about the eth0 nic > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:63:EF:43 > inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:x.x.x.x > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:104255 (101.8 Kb) TX bytes:19936 (19.4 Kb) > Interrupt:5 Base address:0x2000 > > > I wounder about RX bytes and TX bytes, what does it mean, how does it > collect its data RX= received, TX = transmitted. > How often does it zero the counters, every boot, hour or somethings else?. > Is the information reliable > As far as I know, it zeros on boot. And yes, it is reliable. However, 'transmitted' will include checksums etc., so won't match exactly to a file length. Not an expert explanation, but adequate, I think :-) Anne
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