Network Stats

[cpcnw]

What is the most reliable way to get eth0 stats? I am a bit confused about the disparity between the following...

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# cat /proc/net/dev

           bytes    packets
eth0:  699814    5578

# cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/rx_packets
5598

# ifconfig
eth0: RX packets 5623  bytes 703775 (687.2 KiB)

Thanks

[cpcnw]

I was just thinking...

Each time I executed these commands I was doing so over SSH

Maybe that's my answer

[rpdom]

Yes, the number of bytes and packets will increase between each command.