Accuracy of packet counting?

2002-06-13 Thread John Holman
/0 My question: Is there ANY reason to suppose that the ACCOUNTING total is not an accurate count of all IP traffic into and out of eth0? (The machine is a dual-Pentium Pro Linux box, daily traffic 20-30 MB average, ifconfig never reports any dropped packets). TIA, -- Best regards, John Holman

Re: Accuracy of packet counting?

2002-06-13 Thread John Holman
Harald Welte wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:39:39AM +1000, John Holman wrote: My question: Is there ANY reason to suppose that the ACCOUNTING total is not an accurate count of all IP traffic into and out of eth0? yes, since you only count locally-generated and locally-targeted