Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/ifconfig

Martin Husemann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:33:14PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> I don't see the problem.  If you run SNMP, don't zero the counters.  If you
> don't run SNMP, who cares?

That's what I tried to say, basically.

> Sounds like we need to add that if_data and make SIOCZIFDATA set it.
> It's then up to snmpd to monitor that too.

I would have thought that a SNMP daemon could monitor the routing socket and
we could add a "counter zeroed, last value was: XXX" message. But aparently
I don't understand enough about the major complexity of a snmp daemon. 

Martin
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