Ethernet counters?

[Scott Allen]

Hi all,

I've made a *very* simple router using Linux Floppy Firewall as a base

<http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/>

All I wanted was a router; no firewall, no packet filtering. I 
compiled a kernel using the 2.4.29 "vanilla" sources from 
kernel.org.  I removed everything from the kernel config that I 
didn't feel was necessary, including netfilter and all things related.

OK, so it works fine as a router, as intended, but I've noticed that 
the "RX packets" and "TX packets" counters shown from an ifconfig 
command are now always zero. There definitely are packets going in 
and out of both ethernet interfaces.  The counters do work with the 
original floppyfw kernel.

So, my question is, what handles these counters and what do I have to 
enable in the kernel to make them work again?  I wouldn't think that 
this is a netfilter function, but I could be wrong.

Thanks,
Scott A.


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