[plug] ifconfig traffic counters

[Trent Lloyd]

now might be a good time to point out the counters wrap at 4GiB
perhaps an iptables counter woudl be better?
tho im not really sure what yoru trying to dt

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:48:55PM +0800, Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 16:26, Ryan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 16:11, Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone know how to clear the counters that are displayed by ifconfig?
> > > 
> > > shutting down the network doesnt do it...
> > 
> > ... and supposedly if your network driver is a module you can down the
> > interface, remove and reinsert the module and it resets the counters.
> > 
> > Never tried it though.
> yeah. thats what google said. incedently that is exactly what i needed
> and it worked fine.
> 
> cheers
> Patrick
> > 
> > Ryan
> > 
>