RE: [ILUG] weird network stats...

From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Fri 20 Sep 2002 - 18:18:02 IST


> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:21:19AM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > doesnt look like a working iface to me. try mii-tool eth1 to see what
> > mode the card is operating in and 'sho inter <iface>' on the cisco to
> > see what it is doing.
>
> the interface works fine, the stats are wrong. but mii-tool -v yields:
...

Perhaps the driver for that card simply forgets to increment
the TX count. Take a look at the source. I think each driver
has to maintain its own stats, and they may have just forgotten
to stick stats.tx++ in the right place.

Later,
Kenn



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