What do the RX and TX bytes number mean?

Hi,

I have a Sitara SK board, similar to BeagleBone Black board. There are below messages on its Ethernet ports.

What do the bytes numbers mean? Are they used in running ifconfig?

Thanks,

........................................ root@am335x-evm:/home# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr D4:94:A1:86:09:C3 inet addr:192.168.0.112 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:22678 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:22423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2463856 (2.3 MiB) TX bytes:2316757 (2.2 MiB) Interrupt:56

lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:119 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:119 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:195183 (190.6 KiB) TX bytes:195183 (190.6 KiB)

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Robert Willy
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As it says, it's the total number of bytes in all the packets which have been transmitted and received through the interface.

Simon.

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