Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:26:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:26:43 -0400 Received: from intranet.resilience.com ([209.245.157.33]:30900 "EHLO intranet.resilience.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:26:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3B4CF00C.5B62DDBA@resilience.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:32:12 -0700 From: Jeff Golds X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurent Itti CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: receive stats null for bond0 in 2.4.6 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Laurent Itti wrote: > > Hi all: > > just installed 2.4.6 and all is well except that all stats in > /proc/net/dev are at zero on the receive side for our 3x100Mbps > channel-bonded network interface (bond0, using kernel module "bonding"). > The interface works great (we do receive packets). Transmit side stats > appear ok. All stats also ok on the 3 ethernet boards that are enslaved > into the bond. > > any idea? thanks! > It's always zero because the bonding driver included with the Linux kernel is pretty broken. The comments say that its stats are collected from the slaves, but this is untrue. See the source code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonding for how the stats should be collected. -Jeff -- Jeff Golds Sr. Software Engineer jgolds@resilience.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/