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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jaime Medrano <jaime.medrano@gmail.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Getting statistics from a bridge
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:10:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080428111024.2ff2fd78@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080424134129.GA27496@localhost>

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:41:29 +0200
Jaime Medrano <jaime.medrano@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:43:40AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:53:12 +1000
> > "Leigh Sharpe" <lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au> wrote:
> > 
> > >  Is there any way of getting detailed statistics from a bridge?
> > > Specifically, I need to know how many frames may have been dropped
> > > because they exceed the MTU of the underlying port. I'm having a few
> > > issues with MTUs not agreeing.
> > 
> > It would not be hard to modify kernel to use one of the existing statistics on
> > the bridge interface to keep track of the dropped packets. I'll look into it
> > if no one else gets to it first (hint, hint)
> > 
> 
> I think this change will do it.
> 
> Regards,
> Jaime Medrano.

There is still the possiblity of RCU race during removal. I'll fix it up.
I am adding better statistics as part of other patch.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-28 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-23  0:53 [Bridge] Getting statistics from a bridge Leigh Sharpe
2008-04-23 17:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-04-24 13:41   ` Jaime Medrano
2008-04-28 18:10     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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