[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Only why to program in assembly, if you may get even 256 bit counters
> plus lots of another information including packet/data rates etc. with
> trivial daemonlet?
>
> Actually, 64 bit counters in ipchains are pretty useless
> redundancy too.
I don't care.
I only wrote that because people keep complaining that their 32 bit
counters overflow every few minutes.
It's true you can run a daemon. But to do that you have to go to the
trouble of configuring & writing one, and using the results. There are
plenty of monitoring programs that simply read /proc.
In other words: what if I want `ifconfig' to show me the correct byte
count, and I didn't plan ahead and run some special purpose daemon all
the time?
-- Jamie
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