On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Boris shtrasman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Then it time for me to search for an answer in LDD again. Or in the code... ;-) >> $ ip -s link show eth0 >> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast >> state UP qlen 100 >> link/ether 00:23:7d:3f:be:e4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >> RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast >> 127360522 317486 0 0 0 21202 >> TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns >> 9834609 77092 0 0 0 0 >> > I can't understand from the man file if it is the RX/TX including all the > headers (the raw data sent) or only the data segment. It looks in /proc/net/dev (at least if it is like ifconfig that it is supposed to have replaced). I would be very much surprized if a sane driver would count anything else than the actual bytes on the wire. That's the only meaningful statistics from its point of view, isn't it? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
