[Gllug] Zeroing IP counters with fedora core 3

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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Russell Howe announced authoritatively:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:49:49PM +0000, mfaz001-foo at yahoo.com wrote:
>> Folks, 
>> 
>> I'm trying to zero the IP stats reportable with
>> ifconfig & netstat and friends but can't find where to
>> do this. Stopping the network don't cut da mustard. 
>> 
>> Anyone know the magic juju to do this? 
> 
> If you use rrdtool, it has a COUNTER type which is for just this kind of
> situation. It handles resets to 0 caused by 32bit or 64bit wraparounds,
> too.
> 
> Otherwise, I guess you might be stuck. You could always rip the code out
> of rrdtool which handles the COUNTER type.. it probably wouldn't be too
> hard.

Ah, so the idea is to let the kernel counters keep incrementing, and
print the absolute difference between them and some zero value? Yeah,
that would work (it's a classic ring buffer management trick).

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