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From: Alan Cox <alan@...>

To: Bill Fink <billfink@...>

Cc: James Cammarata <jimi@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Linux Netdev List <netdev@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32

Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 8:11 am

> When diagnosing network problems, the ability to zero counters is
quoted text> a major aid in diagnosis.  Writing scripts is not a general solution
> since often several systems are involved and it's not simple to do
> this via a script.  Saving stats output and running beforeafter on
> a number of systems is a royal pain when troubleshooting.

Zeroing them is not a general solution either - you break all the other
tools monitoring the same stats in parallel - like network usage monitors.

This is a user space tools problem, scripts or otherwise.

Alan
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[PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface netw..., James Cammarata, (Fri May 16, 11:18 am)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., David Miller, (Fri May 16, 4:00 pm)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Rick Jones, (Fri May 16, 4:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., James Cammarata, (Sat May 17, 11:06 am)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Eric Dumazet, (Fri May 16, 12:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., James Cammarata, (Sat May 17, 10:54 am)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Eric Dumazet, (Sat May 17, 5:41 pm)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., James Cammarata, (Sat May 17, 6:49 pm)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Ben Hutchings, (Sat May 17, 8:31 pm)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., James Cammarata, (Sun May 18, 1:09 am)

[PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/..., James Cammarata, (Wed May 28, 9:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Andrew Morton, (Thu May 29, 1:11 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Thu May 29, 8:34 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Alan Cox, (Thu May 29, 10:45 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Fri May 30, 3:12 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Alan Cox, (Sat May 31, 8:11 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Sat May 31, 7:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Glen Turner, (Mon Jun 2, 12:50 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Mon Jun 2, 12:10 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Tue Jun 3, 8:28 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Alan Cox, (Tue Jun 3, 10:46 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Tue Jun 3, 11:05 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Ben Hutchings, (Tue Jun 3, 8:35 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Ben Hutchings, (Sat May 31, 9:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Sun Jun 1, 4:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., David Miller, (Mon Jun 2, 1:39 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Mon Jun 2, 11:41 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Ben Hutchings, (Sun Jun 1, 6:29 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Sun Jun 1, 11:55 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Rick Jones, (Fri May 30, 6:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Fri May 30, 9:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Stephen Hemminger, (Fri May 30, 10:41 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Bill Fink, (Sat May 31, 12:47 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Thu May 29, 1:15 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., David Miller, (Thu May 29, 4:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Thu May 29, 5:18 pm)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., Chris Friesen, (Thu May 29, 10:48 am)

Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1..., James Cammarata, (Wed May 28, 10:08 pm)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Ben Hutchings, (Sun May 18, 7:27 am)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., Patrick McHardy, (Sat May 17, 9:43 pm)

Re: [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface ..., David Miller, (Fri May 16, 4:03 pm)

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