6 Oct
2006
6 Oct
'06
18:49
On Friday 06 October 2006 20:34, pelibali wrote:
I read suggestions for such a case to not to let you fooled by ifconfig and use vnstat or similar, measuring perfectly. Any ideas, how "normal" this kind of statistics zeroing on SUSE 10.0 is and how to avoid that? Is vnstat displaying well in that case, when the ifconfig-counter goes to zero several times?
It sounds as if ifconfig is using a 32-bit integer for the counting, which will overflow (wrap around to 0) once it hits 4G. This is normal behaviour for 32-bit integers. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts