[TriLUG] Reset conuters on eth interface

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 09:53, Mike Mueller wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 September 2002 08:32, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to reset the counters on a particular ethernet
> > interface?  For example,
> >
> > ifconfig eth1
> > eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:75:B0:07:14
> >            BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >            RX packets:7664356 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
> >            TX packets:6424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >            collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> >            RX bytes:1089057890 (1038.6 Mb)  TX bytes:405296 (395.7 Kb)
> >            Interrupt:9 Base address:0x7880
> >
> > How can I zero out the "RX bytes" and the "TX bytes" portions above?
> 
> Stop/start the driver or reboot.

Or, install the statzero module:

http://students.washington.edu/ramsden/misc/statzero.tar.gz

It will do exactly what you want.

~spot
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