From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) Description of problem: ifconfig reports no packets have been sent on an active interface. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): net-tools 1.60 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 0. Veiw web pages from and log in via ssh on system. 1. Enter /sbin/ifconfig Actual Results: TX packets:0 Expected Results: TX packets:<more than 0> Additional info: set | grep SSH SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass SSH_CLIENT='192.168.0.3 3657 22' SSH_CONNECTION='192.168.0.3 3657 192.168.0.8 22' SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0 /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:96:3D:59 inet addr:192.168.0.8 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:173659 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2 TX packets:0 errors:177275 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:354327 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:25275408 (24.1 Mb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:247257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:247257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:25575298 (24.3 Mb) TX bytes:25575298 (24.3 Mb) snmpwalk -v2c -c private vaal if IF-MIB::ifIndex.1 = INTEGER: 1 IF-MIB::ifIndex.2 = INTEGER: 2 IF-MIB::ifDescr.1 = STRING: lo IF-MIB::ifDescr.2 = STRING: eth0 IF-MIB::ifType.1 = INTEGER: softwareLoopback(24) IF-MIB::ifType.2 = INTEGER: ethernetCsmacd(6) IF-MIB::ifMtu.1 = INTEGER: 16436 IF-MIB::ifMtu.2 = INTEGER: 1500 IF-MIB::ifSpeed.1 = Gauge32: 10000000 IF-MIB::ifSpeed.2 = Gauge32: 10000000 IF-MIB::ifPhysAddress.1 = STRING: IF-MIB::ifPhysAddress.2 = STRING: 0:50:bf:96:3d:59 IF-MIB::ifAdminStatus.1 = INTEGER: up(1) IF-MIB::ifAdminStatus.2 = INTEGER: up(1) IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.1 = INTEGER: up(1) IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.2 = INTEGER: up(1) IF-MIB::ifInOctets.1 = Counter32: 25624514 IF-MIB::ifInOctets.2 = Counter32: 25333942 IF-MIB::ifInUcastPkts.1 = Counter32: 247753 IF-MIB::ifInUcastPkts.2 = Counter32: 174414 IF-MIB::ifInDiscards.1 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifInDiscards.2 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifInErrors.1 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifInErrors.2 = Counter32: 2 IF-MIB::ifOutOctets.1 = Counter32: 25625716 IF-MIB::ifOutOctets.2 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifOutUcastPkts.1 = Counter32: 247769 IF-MIB::ifOutUcastPkts.2 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifOutDiscards.1 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifOutDiscards.2 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifOutErrors.1 = Counter32: 0 IF-MIB::ifOutErrors.2 = Counter32: 178144 IF-MIB::ifOutQLen.1 = Gauge32: 0 IF-MIB::ifOutQLen.2 = Gauge32: 0 IF-MIB::ifSpecific.1 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::zeroDotZero IF-MIB::ifSpecific.2 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::zeroDotZero cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.21-9.0.1.EL (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-26)) #1 Mon Feb 9 22:26:52 EST 2004 rpm -qa | grep net-tools net-tools-1.60-20 /sbin/ifconfig -version net-tools 1.60 ifconfig 1.42 (2001-04-13)
This sounds more like a driver problem reporting the statistics in a wrong field. Could you run /sbin/lspci -v on that machine please and post the output here? Thanks, Read ya, Phil
Created attachment 99432 [details] lspci output
In case you're wondering, I had to add a NIC card to the system since Linux could not see the integrated nForce2 device, so the driver in use is for the Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet.
I've re-rested this on 2.4.21-15.EL and it works OK now.