On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 11:43:48PM -0500, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > 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? Have a look at MRTG, Collectd, Munin, etc. Just check that you're not reinventing a wheel that's already in use quite widely :) > > Thanks!
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