From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: interface counters overflow (ppp)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:15:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1229019353.3006.8.camel@achroite> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812112142.46202.denys@visp.net.lb>
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 21:42 +0200, Denys Fedoryschenko wrote:
> Is there any plans to convert ppp counters to 64-bit values?
> Sure backward compatible way. (new ioctl call?)
>
> Current speeds on modern interfaces, even on 1Mbit DSL modem (PPPoE
> connection) will overflow pppd counters just in ~10 hours.
>
> Current pppd implementation using SIOCGPPPSTATS ioctl, where is all fields
> related to byte counting is 32-bit.
Perhaps it could implement ethtool stats? There are several non-
Ethernet drivers implementing some of the ethtool operations now.
Ben.
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2008-12-11 19:42 interface counters overflow (ppp) Denys Fedoryschenko
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