[sllug-members]: Reset network statistics

[Steve Royce]

I am running SLES 9.3.  I am trying to find out if there is a
non-interruptive way to reset the NIC statistics shown by ifconfig. 
Currently, when I run ifconfig, I get the following:
 
/sbin/ifconfig eth1

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet
[snip]
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10828173 errors:659899 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
          TX packets:3354598 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1133019835 (1080.5 Mb)  TX bytes:696306834 (664.0
Mb)
          Interrupt:21


There are obviously errors.  They resulted from a network
misconfiguration, and I want to reset the stats.  I know I can do this
by doing and "ifdown eth1" then "ifup eth1", but I want to know if there
is a way to reset this without bringing down the card.  The stats are (I
believe) pulled from /proc/net/dev, but this is a read-only file that I
can't edit manually, even as root (probably with good reason).
 
Thanks
 
Steve

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