[Techtalk] network tools

John Elliott johne at trifidtech.ca
Sat Apr 6 18:06:24 EST 2002


On April 6, 2002 06:00 pm, John Elliott wrote:
[snip]
> > 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.

This time with the reply....

Newer versions of ifconfig will give you the byte count.

The information is also availble in /proc/net/dev for all of your interfaces.

John




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