David Miller wrote:
It used unsigned long ages ago, and ifconfig gets the bits exported from /proc/net/dev output whereas we have to used fixed data types in whatever we use over netlink so u32 was choosen.
It's rather ironic that the "new-and-improved" way of doing things is subject to rollover while the "old" way is not.
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