Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

[Stephen R Guglielmo <srguglielmo@gmail.com>]

Hi list,

I'm running Debian Jessie AMD64. I'm using RRDTool to create graphs of
my network activity. Do the byte counters in the `ifconfig` output
overflow? I imagine they have to at some point. What's the value at
which they overflow? Is it 2^64 bytes?

Also, is there a "better" way to access this information instead of
parsing the `ifconfig` output? Maybe somewhere in /proc?

Thanks!

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