[Techtalk] network tools

[Laurel Fan]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:43:46AM +0200, Hamster wrote: 

> Doesnt ifconfig just tell you the number of packets? I mean right
> now its telling me 11087444 packets have been sent - but I still
> have no idea the quantity - ie I was looking for something to say,
> 15M has gone out eth0, not 1234 packets have gone out.

Mine says:

          RX bytes:2129116699 (1.9 GiB)  TX bytes:961020868 (916.5 MiB)

near the bottom when I say 'ifconfig eth0'.  It might be a new feature
though, since I don't remember it always being there.  My ifconfig is
from net-tools 1.60.

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