Re: /proc/net/dev info missing??

Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:26:38 +0300

SA> I'm running kernel 2.2.5 on caldera openlinux. I have ip-aliases enabled
SA> and 1 alias (eth0:1) set up, which has worked fine.
SA> I also run ucd-snmp to retrieve traffic info for eth0 and eth0:1 (trying)
SA> I, however, cannot pull traffic info (packets/octets/etc) for an aliased
SA> interface.

Aliases are not interfaces any morem they are just alternate addresses
for the same interface. All the accounting is done for real interfaces.
All the packets/octets/etc go through eth0 on the interface level.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)


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