Bug 64213 - ifconfig TX/RX bytes counter overflowing
Summary: ifconfig TX/RX bytes counter overflowing
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 55953
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: net-tools
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Phil Knirsch
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-29 12:41 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2015-03-05 01:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-04-29 12:41:58 UTC
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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.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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 ***


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