Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:22:10 -0700 From: "Charles Beckham" <cbeckham@gmail.com> To: "David Wolfskill" <david@catwhisker.org>, "Charles Beckham" <cbeckham@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Obytes counter in netstat not incrementing Message-ID: <f9ac6b770809021722n13cdee5dmd4bb2cb62a53d854@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080902203809.GK1089@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <f9ac6b770808312346i61afe359y67a795715cede824@mail.gmail.com> <20080902154131.GH1089@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <f9ac6b770809021315x4b754a0bu81cfca9578c753bc@mail.gmail.com> <20080902203809.GK1089@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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i've already made the changes to rc.conf, but since its a shared machine and almost all addresses are in use, i'll have to schedule a reboot before i can make changes effective, i will post a follwup after i've made these changes. thanks for you assistance. On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:38 PM, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:15:15PM -0700, Charles Beckham wrote: >> sorry, heres a uname >> x# uname -a >> FreeBSD x.worxtech.net 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #1: Sun May 25 >> 12:15:51 CDT 2008 worxtech@x.worxtech.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X >> i386 >> >> also i should point out that this machine has ~ 100 alias addresses on >> it, and the problem doesnt seem to appear with all of them, some >> appear to have a proper counter. >> ... >> i'm not quite sure why this problem is persistent but could it be >> related to my netmask address for the inet alias? >> i did some research and it appears i should be using 0xffffffff for my >> netmask for the alias interface? please let me know any thaughts you >> may have. > > Ah. I recall that in older releases of FreeBSD, attempting to create > such "alias" entries netmask specifications that amounted to having > different "alias" specifications sharing a (sub)net generally failed to > work, with the suggestion to use 0xffffffff as the netmask for all such > alias specification being the usual suggestion. > > Somehow, I thought that someone had done some work on this, but on a > 6.3-STABLE system built 25 August, I still see in ifconfig(1): > > alias Establish an additional network address for this interface. This > is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes > to accept packets addressed to the old interface. If the address > is on the same subnet as the first network address for this > interface, a non-conflicting netmask must be given. Usually > 0xffffffff is most appropriate. > > so unless there's some special reason you're using a different netmask for > the alia entrie, I think I'd suggest switching to 0xffffffff. > >>.... > > Peace, > david > -- > David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org > Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. > > See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. > -- - Charles
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