Re: Zeroing interface stats?

[Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Morton writes:
 > jamal wrote:
 > > 
 > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > > 
 > > Infact i think what the acenic is doing is illegal. These stats are used
 > > by SNMP.
 > > IIRC, if you have to zero the stats you also must reset the ifindex.
 > > Someone double check the SNMP RFCs.
 > 
 > I've seen you use this `ifindex' term before.  What is it, and
 > what is its role in life?


 BTW did you look into my effort of having a private clearable copy of 
 the device stats for all open devices?  The format as /proc/net/dev
 plus an extra line for EWMA stats, bytes and pkts etc.

 SNMP is not aware of it but it could be possible.

 robur.slu.se:
 /pub/Linux/net-development/ends/ends.c

 Cheers.


                                                --ro