[SOLVED] eth0 4GB overflow in RX/TX bytes ?

[ufo6000]

Hi,
I'm using arch on a raspi 2.

To measure/supervise the network traffic produced by the pi I usually look at ifconfig or /proc/net/dev, in detail at the RX/TX bytes.

My problem is on the pi: after 4GB traffic the RX/TX have (probably an overflow) and values are reset to 0.
* Is this a known bug or a configuration issue?
* Is there a workaround or another way to measure the RX/TX traffic volume?

Thank you very much!

[viky]

It's probably normal on 32bit kernel. Mine overflows two times a day.

If it's important to you you can probably patch (and compile) your kernel or use iptables as described at http://serverfault.com/questions/163404/ifconfig-showing-wrong-rx-tx-byte-count. But I didn't test any of these workaroundshere.

[ufo6000]

Thanks for your answer, I will stay with the info "normal on 32bit kernel"