Re: GE traffic statistics (/proc/net/dev)

uaca@alumni.uv.es
Sat, 7 Jun 2003 10:40:25 +0200


On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:04:05AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 07:20, uaca@alumni.uv.es wrote:
> > I found very extrange that, for this device, stats on /proc/net/dev updates
> > each second (more or less), that is, not in sub-second intervals. Again note
> > this only happens for this device and not for other NIC card (Fast-Ethernet
> > card, e100).
>
> The chip only periodically sends updated statistics to main
> memory via DMA, the interval can be changed using the
> 'ethtool' utility.

Thanks so much, that explains it

in the other hand, vanilla ethertool-1.7 refused to show -S information and
crashed the machine using -d

[root@discreto sbin]# ./ethtool -i eth1
driver: tg3
version: 1.2
firmware-version:
bus-info: 00:0b.0

that is a 2.4.20 kernel, the card is an 3Com 906B-T pluged in a 32bit/33Mhz/
5Volt PCI Bus.

I have reported this to the gkernel project on sourceforge

Ulisses

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