On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:10:32PM -0400, jamal wrote: > 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..
Well, I can show you support on my home switch (cabletron) - the network guys will be a little unhappy if I clear stats on our production network (cisco) without warning them: ***************************************************************************** Cabletron Systems ELS100-24TXG SWITCH STATISTICS Access Control: READ/WRITE ID TRANSMITTED RECEIVED FORWARDED FILTERED DROPPED ERRORED ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 1322815 1614038 1614038 0 0 51562 2 2067032 18142545 18142349 0 196 0 3 17487573 1011964 1011964 0 0 0 4 18247 20528 20528 0 0 0 5 38775 0 0 0 0 0 6 38775 0 0 0 0 0 7 38775 0 0 0 0 0 8 38775 0 0 0 0 0 9 38820 0 0 0 0 0 10 38820 0 0 0 0 0 n. Next Page p. Previous Page f. First Page l. Last Page s. Switch Summary d. Port Statistics t. Trunking Statistics r. Refresh c. Clear x. Previous Menu Enter Selection:c ***************************************************************************** Cabletron Systems ELS100-24TXG SWITCH STATISTICS Access Control: READ/WRITE ID TRANSMITTED RECEIVED FORWARDED FILTERED DROPPED ERRORED ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 n. Next Page p. Previous Page f. First Page l. Last Page s. Switch Summary d. Port Statistics t. Trunking Statistics r. Refresh c. Clear x. Previous Menu Enter Selection: > > If my patch was invasive and broke things, > > It _does break_ things for all known management apps. > This is not to say it is not useful for testing, development or > debugging (which is what you seem to be using it for) but it does mean > it is broken. Does having the ability to boot into single user mode break networking? No, it *allows* you to break networking. Does the _support_ of rmmod break the kernel? No, but it *allows* you to. Same thing here. The patch breaks nothing, it provides a tool that if used without proper understanding, could break things. Just like almost any other feature in the kernel. -- Phil Dibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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