Bug 64213

Summary: ifconfig TX/RX bytes counter overflowing
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <dhubbard>
Component: net-toolsAssignee: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 7.2CC: rvokal
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Description Need Real Name 2002-04-29 12:41:54 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Description of problem:
The transmit and receive bytes counters displayed by ifconfig when given no 
arguments reset to zero somewhere above 4077 MB, possibly at the 32-bit 
unsigned integer limit of 4,294,967,295.  The packet counters do not reset, as 
they should not.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create lots of network traffic, the iperf program makes this easy.
2. Run ifconfig repeatedly during the test
3. Wait for just over 4 gigs worth of data to be transmitted and you'll see 
the TX and/or RX byte counter reset to zero.
	

Actual Results:  TX and RX bytes reset to zero ever 4 GB or so of data 
transmitted.

Expected Results:  TX and RX bytes should continuously climb as TX and RX 
packets do.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2002-04-29 12:48:12 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55953 ***