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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:03:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The if_detach problem
Message-ID:  <199912151703.JAA04023@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199912150216.TAA17370@usr08.primenet.com>

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>From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
>Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 02:16:31 +0000 (GMT)

>For netstat -i, if you destroy the object on which you are keeping
>statistics, it's right to destroy the statistics information as
>well.

Though it would be Nice (tm) to have the option to record the
statistical information somewhere just before destroying it, so that
various forms of analysis have some hope of functioning.

>Consider that packets sent, collisions, and similar counts are not
>presistant across a reboot (in which interfaces are "deinstanced"
>and subsequently "reinstanced").

Granted....  :-}

Cheers,
david
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