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Re: Persistent SLIP statistics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Gortmaker)
Wed May 29 13:27:48 1996
From: Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@rsphy6.anu.edu.au>
To: callahan@maths.ox.ac.uk
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 01:52:33 +1000 (EST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9605291652.H29845-0100000@stlawrence.maths> from "Michael Callahan" at May 29, 96 04:12:37 pm
> I can't remember if I thought about this at the time, but I think that my
> logic at the time might have been (would have been?) that the connections
> over a given PPP device may not, in general, have anything to do with one
> another. Therefore, it is probably more useful to know the statistics
> for _this_ connection, unconfused by the stats for previous connections.
Valid point -- the mapping of sl0 -> slN to various serial ports can
also vary depending on the order of usage, and thus the stats are not
necessarily bound to any one serial port. So I guess clearing the stats
for each up/down is actually the Right Thing To Do in this case.
Paul.
