Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:48:43 +0400 (MSD) From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru> To: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netstat -s output Message-ID: <20030606134708.J6293@news1.macomnet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030606111519.D82842-100000@fw.office.icom> References: <20030606111519.D82842-100000@fw.office.icom>
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On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, 11:19+0200, Bogdan TARU wrote: > > > Hi hackers, > > I have tried to find out the amount of traffic that one box sent (from > the last reboot), and netstat -s seemed like a good choice. But netstat -s > seems to generate incorrect results: > > tcp: > 1730547260 packets sent > 1325234728 data packets (1119813018 bytes) > 28496801 data packets (151887376 bytes) retransmitted > > This box generated a lot more than ~12Gb of tcp traffic since the last > reboot. And I have not messed up with interfaces (up, down, whatever) OR > with netstat -z in all this time. Any idea what could be wrong? Are the > counters resetted sometimes, or they wrap sometimes, or...? They wrap at 2^32. -- Maxim Konovalov, maxim@macomnet.ru, maxim@FreeBSD.org
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