Re: Networking byte counters not 64 bit?

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Mon, 24 May 1999 20:28:35 +0400 (MSK DST)


Hello!

> I thought that in 2.2, the networking byte counters had been upgraded
> to 64 bits?

Certainly, no. They have maximal length natural lfor architerture.

If you need better accounting either use ipchains
or write applet scanning statistics from cron.
BTW the last is even more clever, f.e. you may add rate
and average packet length estimators to it.

Alexey Kuznetsov

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