Re: your mail

Ricky Beam (root@defiant.interpath.net)
Tue, 27 May 1997 23:52:14 -0400 (EDT)

Letting the chips far where they may, I quote Pawel S. Veselov:
> Looking at `ifconfig -a` results I that if they are real, my box
>have to be cut off from network.... :
...

Look at /proc/net/dev...

2.0...
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier
lo: 23391 0 0 0 0 23391 0 0 0 0 0
eth0:1011974 0 0 0 257 212848 0 0 0 3654 0
dummy0: No statistics available.

2.1...
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier
lo: 76631 591 0 0 0 0 76631 591 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8266 0 0 0 0 1
ppp0: 0 39893 15 15 0 0 0 45639 0 0 0 0 0

Your tools know there are new fields to deal with.

--Ricky