On Wednesday 19 March 2008 08:37:21 Tronn W?rdahl wrote:> If you do a ifconfig eth0 you get some info about the eth0 nic
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:63:EF:43
> inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:x.x.x.x
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:1166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:104255 (101.8 Kb) TX bytes:19936 (19.4 Kb)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x2000
>
>
> I wounder about RX bytes and TX bytes, what does it mean, how does it
> collect its data
RX= received, TX = transmitted.
> How often does it zero the counters, every boot, hour or somethings else?.
> Is the information reliable
>
As far as I know, it zeros on boot. And yes, it is reliable.
However, 'transmitted' will include checksums etc., so won't match
exactly to
a file length. Not an expert explanation, but adequate, I think :-)
Anne
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