Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:21:57 -0700 | From | Thomas Davis <> | Subject | Re: receive stats null for bond0 in 2.4.6 |
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Jeff Golds wrote: > > So what's wrong with collecting the slaves' receive stats and reporting > them as stats for the bonding driver? At least then you can quickly see > the total for all devices currently owned by the bonding device. > > Stats are just a tool so that you can see if things are behaving > properly, you can report back whatever you like. I prefer to have the > bonding driver collect the slaves' stats so you can easily see if > enslaved devices are receiving packets. If you want to see which device > is getting more traffic, that's easy to see by looking at the individual > slave. >
the person who ported the driver over to 2.4 from 2.2 made that choice.
It wasn't me. It was one of the network guys (Dave/Alexy/??).
One problem with collecting all the stats into the bonding driver - which I have seen, is you can quickly start to overflow counters. And they don't roll over.
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