Surely I'm not the only person to have encountered this issue by now; When the kernel records the tx/rx packet counts and their respective sizes, they rollover very quickly on 32-bit hardware. To put this in better perspective - After roughly 4 Gb worth of network traffic, the Kernel tends to restart at 0 for the rx/tx stats in net_device_stat. Could/should it be changed such that net_device_stat uses larger types for these fields? 4 Gb is not a whole lot of traffic, its discouraging to check ifconfig only a few hours later to find out the kernel has rolled-over several times since you last checked. 32-bit servers with large volumes of traffic are simply swamped with rollovers, rendering any practical use for net_device_stat's rx/tx byte count out of the question. I'm not capable of patching this myself, so it's more along the lines of a comment/suggestion... <smirks> Any insight would be appreciated, - Andon M. Coleman <CodeMaster@nothing-inc.com> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
