> view how many packets transfered or received.

  # ifconfig -v

oughta do it for you (with SOCK set for each stack).

It's true that nicinfo does have some exotic counters
that "ifconfig -v" doesn't (eg out of window collisions)
but with 6.4, ifconfig has some features that nicinfo doesn't.

For example, ifconfig shows flow control status, nicinfo doesn't.

ifconfig and nicinfo show the link speed and duplex, but only 
ifconfig allows you to change it on the fly from the command line.

I'm hoping that most of the time, "ifconfig -v" will
do what 99% of the people need.

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aboyd