When LRO is enabled, the received packet and byte counters represent the LRO'd packets, not the packets/bytes on the wire. The Intel 82599 NIC has registers that keep count of the physical packets. Add these counters to the ethtool stats. The byte counters are 36-bit, but the high 4 bits were being ignored in the 2.6.31 ixgbe driver: Read those as well to allow longer time between polling the stats to detect wraps. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear Please do not apply this until the ixgbe authors ACK it. There may have been reasons for not reading the high 4 bits, or they may dislike this approach entirely. Here is ethtool stats output with LRO enabled, with patch applied: #ethtool -S eth20 NIC statistics: rx_packets: 15944000 tx_packets: 12339293 rx_bytes: 272306022656 tx_bytes: 940244184 rx_pkts_nic: 187747191 tx_pkts_nic: 12340822 rx_bytes_nic: 284695533402 tx_bytes_nic: 989725050 lsc_int: 3 ... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com