From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lincoln Dale Subject: Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:28:15 +1000 Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: References: <3D06E9A0.5060801@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Ben Greear , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Horst von Brand , "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <200206121211.g5CCBjZt030139@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org At 08:11 AM 12/06/2002 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: >General dislike for adding features of _extremely_ limited (debugging!) use? i would imagine that every installation of Squid on linux is interested in having _realistic transaction logs_ of exactly how much data was received and transmitted on a TCP connection. i know of many many folk who use transaction logs from HTTP caches for volume-based billing. right now, those bills are anywhere between 10% to 25% incorrect. you call that "extremely limited"? of course, i am doing exactly what Dave said to do -- maintaining my own out-of-kernel patch -- but its a pain, i'm sure it will soon conflict with stuff and is a damn shame - it isn't much code, but Dave seems pretty steadfast that he isn't interested. damn shame that. i think the information is on par with getsockopt(..,TCP_INFO,..) in terms of usefulness yet TCP_INFO is there in the kernel. cheers, lincoln.