Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: Seriously, I can't read ip. I suppose that eventually I shall have to see if if you think ip is bad, try your hand at iw (the one that replaces iwconfig)... -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 01:02:23PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: ip a ip r The counters are not printed with those but since I think those should be accessed using /proc (or /sys) I am not going to contribute to pulling those from a command. But I will. ip --statistics link ip -s l

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 09 February 2015 20:02:23 Bob Proulx wrote: Hey if an old school dog like me can learn to deal with 'ip' instead of 'ifconfig' then you can too. The problem, anyhow for me, is that ifconfig is legible and ip is not. So I shall use ifconfig for as long as almost possible and then

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 14:57:51 Lisi Reisz wrote: Seriously, I can't read ip. I just had another try, and it has improved. Maybe by the time ifconfig is finally dead or useless, ip will be useful! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
John L. Ries wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: In Linux, you should never use ifconfig for anything... I wouldn't go that far. I think ifconfig is just fine for quickie diagnostics; but I would never use it as a network interface configuration tool if I could help it. The problem

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 11:43:48PM -0500, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: Hi list, I'm running Debian Jessie AMD64. I'm using RRDTool to create graphs of my network activity. Do the byte counters in the `ifconfig` output overflow? I imagine they have to at some point. What's the value at which

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:02:23 -0700 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: John L. Ries wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: In Linux, you should never use ifconfig for anything... I wouldn't go that far. I think ifconfig is just fine for quickie diagnostics; but I would never use it

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-09 Thread John L. Ries
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2015, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: In Linux, you should never use ifconfig for anything... I wouldn't go that far. I think ifconfig is just fine for quickie diagnostics; but I would never use it as a network interface

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 Feb 2015, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: I'm running Debian Jessie AMD64. I'm using RRDTool to create graphs of my network activity. Do the byte counters in the `ifconfig` output overflow? I imagine they have to at some point. What's the value at which they overflow? Is it 2^64 bytes?

Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-07 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi list, I'm running Debian Jessie AMD64. I'm using RRDTool to create graphs of my network activity. Do the byte counters in the `ifconfig` output overflow? I imagine they have to at some point. What's the value at which they overflow? Is it 2^64 bytes? Also, is there a better way to access this

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: I'm running Debian Jessie AMD64. I'm using RRDTool to create graphs of my network activity. Fun! Do the byte counters in the `ifconfig` output overflow? Yes. Eventually. I imagine they have to at some point. What's the value at which they overflow? Is it 2^64