On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Federico Sevilla III wrote: .. > As previously mentioned, I have a bridge+firewall running GNU/Linux with > Linux 2.4.26-brnf5. This is an old Compaq Presario 425 unit with two > NE2000 10Mbps ISA NICs. For some reason, traffic reporting provided by > /proc/net/dev (which is read by ifconfig) and IPTraf doesn't seem right. > > For example, I'm downloading an ISO right now, and IPTraf on my box > reports 63.2KB/s total traffic. IPTraf on the bridge+firewall only > reports 15.4KB/s on eth0 and 16.1KB/s on eth1. Really weird.
Jijo, I have seen this problem *MANY* times in the course of testing my software. And I don't have a solution. Different hardware, different NIC's. It seems that the packet-capture utilities always show a lower figure than ifconfig's octet count, by around a factor of FOUR. Obviously, both my pcap program, tcpdump, and iptraf are ALL affected by this weird disparity. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
