I have set up a network statistics gathering script, which is based on the
byte statistics from /proc/net/dev, but it has always been reporting too
little.
Yesterday, I discovered that the cause was that these statistics are defined
as unsigned longs in include/linux/netdevice.h. Surely, this must be strange?
They overflow at least once a day for me.
On the other hand, I cannot imagine that noone would have thought of it. What
is the reason for this? Is there another interface that I should use instead
of /proc/net/dev to gather byte statistics for interfaces?
Shouldn't they be changed to unsigned long longs in any case?
Fredrik Tolf
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