Re: How to count tx and rx bytes?

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:46:59 -0800
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Maybe the stats-polling code in the driver could do the necessary subtraction
> to remove the FCS from the results (ie, subtract (packets-since-last-sample * 
> 4) bytes.

The whole reason to use the chip internally computed stats is to avoid
having to do "stats->foo++" at all, your suggestion basically eliminates
this purpose.