On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:36:05PM +0800, Kieran OSullivan mentioned:
> Given the following output of the ifconfig, can anyone tell me if I want to get the total number of packets do I add the TX and RX figures. I've looked all over and can't find the answer for this one.
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:18:90:1B:56
> inet addr:208.164.186.2 Bcast:208.164.186.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:1295 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:1163 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa800
Well...yeah. RX is "received", TX is "transmitted".
John
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