Re: handling of compressed packets in slip.c

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:07:00 +0100

>2.1.105 isn't using the {rx,tx}_compressed fields in struct
>net_device_stats, thus the compressed fields are 0 in /proc/net/dev and
>all compressed frames are reported in the fifo fields. I think this used
>to work at some point, net-tools was just wrong before. Now it's the
>kernel, or am I missing something here?

CSLIP has, historically, always reported compressed frames in the FIFO field,
and net-tools knew to look for them there. A few months ago I added the
`compressed' fields to /proc/net/dev and changed net-tools to use them instead
on systems where they exist. It looks like maybe the corresponding change to
the slip code didn't get merged from the CVS tree into Linus'. I'll take a
look.

p.

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