Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref] on Sun, 2014/11/02 12:51:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:33:13 +0100
Christian Hesse [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Byte and packet count can increase to really big numbers. This adds a
switch to show human readable output.

4: wl: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode
DORMANT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:de:ad:be:ee:ef brd
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
    1523846973 3969051  0       0       0       0
    TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns
    8710088361 6077735  0       0       0       0
4: wl: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode
DORMANT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:de:ad:be:ee:ef brd
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
    1.5G       3.9M     0       0       0       0
    TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns
    8.7G       6.0M     0       0       0       0

Applied, then I did a code cleanup and added -iec as a option (similar to
tc).

I would have come up with something similar later. ;) Thanks a lot!
I am perfectly happy now and can live without ifconfig in the future.
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Best regards,
Christian Hesse