From Bugzilla Helper: 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:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55953 ***