Can you provide some link to a vendor that allows resetting ethernet stats? I am almost certain, if they do they will have something or other which indicates that such a reset happened. It is also easier for cisco to have none standard feature "as of ios 15.16" which could support such behavior because they bundle everything including network management tools. We dont have that luxury. The BSDs may actually get away with it because they bundle user space apps as well. Perhaps some random Linux vendor as well..
The lanadmin (think ethtool) command of HP-UX has had a way to clear the statistics reported by lanadmin. I do not know however, if that affects the stats in the actual SNMP interface MIBs as I've never had occasion to look.
I still suggest beforeafter to people because clearing the lanadmin stats requires root privs and because it may not be a kosher thing to do on a customer system.
HP-UX does not provide a way to clear the stats reported by netstat. fwiw, rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
