Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] r8169: ethtool hardware statistics support

From: Richard Dawe <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:32:05 +0000

Hello.

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Add ethtool support for dumping the chip statistics. There aren't lots
> of statistics available, but this is what is available according to the RealTek
> documentation.
[snip]

Works fine for me on my Athlon64 laptop with a 8169 with built-in PHY.

Did some rsync'ing and some broadcast pings. Statistics looked sane. 
Also tried stopping networking ("/etc/init.d/network stop") and checked 
that all the stats had been reset to zero.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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