[Bug 18713] New: connection properties dialog has incorrect information

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           Summary: connection properties dialog has incorrect information
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: linux
        AssignedTo: ben.collins at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: dooglus at gmail.com
         QAContact: kernel-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


If I right-click on the gnome netstatus applet in the top right of the screen, I
can select 'properties' to see a real-time display of the amount that has been
uploaded and downloaded.

The numbers shown aren't correct, however.  Whenever they get to 4Gb they wrap
back to zero without any warning.  I can currently see that I have received 22
million packets and 10 megabytes.  If that's true then the average packet size
was half a byte...  I see the same from 'ifconfig'.

It turns out that /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.12/include/linux/netdevice.h defines
the counter of 'total bytes received' like this:

  unsigned long	rx_bytes;

which limits it to a 32 bit value.  Is there any reason not to use a "long long"
(64 bit) value instead?  4Gb isn't very much with today's network speeds.

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