Re: Slight upgrade issues

[Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi>]

Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> writes:

> Stable / 12:
> New net-tools comes with ifconfig with empty numeric values: It's all zero;
>
>  RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
>  RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>  TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
>  TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

I've seen that with vlan interfaces before too. I've understood ifconfig
is on life support.

> My rrdtools based graphs now use 'ip' instead;
>
>  ip -s link show dev Some_Device

There is also /sys/class/net/<interface>/statistics for that sort of
thing.