From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: reminder, 2.6.18 window... Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:25:18 -0700 Message-ID: <4474C12E.8050600@hp.com> References: <20060523.182217.59656237.davem@davemloft.net> <447412CA.50303@ipom.com> <4474A489.4080308@garzik.org> <20060524185644.GF22881@ipom.com> <4474AE92.3030501@garzik.org> <20060524191442.GG22881@ipom.com> <1148501433.5325.52.camel@jzny2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Phil Dibowitz , netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from palrel10.hp.com ([156.153.255.245]:33942 "EHLO palrel10.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932328AbWEXUZU (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 16:25:20 -0400 To: hadi@cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <1148501433.5325.52.camel@jzny2> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > Can you provide some link to a vendor that allows resetting ethernet > stats? I am almost certain, if they do they will have something or other > which indicates that such a reset happened. It is also easier for cisco > to have none standard feature "as of ios 15.16" which could support such > behavior because they bundle everything including network management > tools. We dont have that luxury. The BSDs may actually get away with it > because they bundle user space apps as well. Perhaps some > random Linux vendor as well.. The lanadmin (think ethtool) command of HP-UX has had a way to clear the statistics reported by lanadmin. I do not know however, if that affects the stats in the actual SNMP interface MIBs as I've never had occasion to look. I still suggest beforeafter to people because clearing the lanadmin stats requires root privs and because it may not be a kosher thing to do on a customer system. HP-UX does not provide a way to clear the stats reported by netstat. fwiw, rick jones