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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:30:11 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: RFC: another approach for 64-bit network stats
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If you don't want to poll periodically for network stats, as has
been repeatedly suggested, you can always poll periodically for the
64-bit NIC-specific stats that most gige adapters provide these days,
using ethtool.  NIC-specific stats also tend to provide more fine
granularity than the current net_device_stats members.

	Jeff