Re: new /proc/net/dev for 2.1.90

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
>  face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
> 
> This probably breaks quite a few network display packages. I'm sure xnetload
> won't work, but I'll fix that tonight. I doubt pppload or kpppload like it
> either (which I also maintain). ifconfig doesn't work (there is an upstream
> patch).

Also breaks procmeter.

I'm beginning to think all these programs should wise up to the fact that
/proc/net/dev keeps getting new fields added to it, and try to parse the
header for the field locations, so they can adapt to the changes. Oh well,
probably too much work to be worth it. :-/

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