>Number:         21078
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       there is no way to clear interface stats (packet in/out) with ifconfig
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 09 12:14:01 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jean-Edouard BABIN
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6Q
>Organization:
	
>Environment:
System: NetBSD ... 1.6Q NetBSD 1.6Q (JNBSD-Current) #0: Mon Apr 7 00:50:26 CEST 2003 root@...:/mnt/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/JNBSD-Current i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
there is no way to clear interface stats (packet in/out) with ifconfig
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
i have make a patch available here: http://jeb.be/ifconfig.c.patch, the patch add ifconfig -c ifname, the output is exactly the same as ifconfig -v but -c will also clear stats 
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