Exact meaning of rx_bytes and tx_bytes

2006-10-09 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi all, I am wondering what exactly the rx_bytes and tx_bytes values exported under statistics/ in sysfs are supposed to represent. Most popular ethernet drivers (8139too, e100, 3c59x) count the bytes in software, so they only take into account the bytes they actually send and receive. This

Re: Exact meaning of rx_bytes and tx_bytes

2006-10-09 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:39:02 +0200 Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what exactly the rx_bytes and tx_bytes values exported under statistics/ in sysfs are supposed to represent. Most popular ethernet drivers (8139too, e100, 3c59x) count the bytes in software,