On Nov 10, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> I have an unprovisioned ethernet interface showing some TX packets:
>
> # ifconfig -a eth1
> eth1: flags=4163 mtu 1500
>inet6 fe80::224:e8ff:fe80:9258 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
>ether 00:24:e8:80:92:58 txqueuelen 1000
Oh, sorry, that would have been helpful:
Slackware64-14.0
Linux 3.2.45 #2 SMP Fri May 31 20:14:55 CDT 2013 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R)
CPU X5550 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
glibc-2.15
I dug around in the kernel source looking for what exactly causes the
counter to increment, but it
