Messages in this thread | | | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: netstat output misleading | Date | Thu, 28 May 1998 12:15:42 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Hi to Darmstadt !
Eva R Hocks wrote: |> |> |> Eversince I installed the 2.1.x kernel I noticed a misleading information at which x did you start ? |> from the netstat command. There are not that many Transmit-errors (TX-ERR) |> on the interfaces, neither lo nor ippp0. From the /proc/net/dev |> information looks like the columns are shifted to the right for 1 col. |> |> netstat -in which version ? (which distribution ?) |> Kernel Interface table |> Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flags |> lo 3584 0 42 0 0 0 0 2933 42 0 LRU |> ippp0 1500 1 8505 0 0 0 0 5377025 11865 0 OPRU |> |> |> /proc/net/dev has the correct packet information : |> |> Inter-|Receive |Transmit |> face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes |> packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed |> lo: 2933 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 2933 |> 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 |> ippp0: 684187 7907 0 0 0 0 0 0 5368904 |> 11032 0 0 0 0 0 0 |> looks like an additional column introduced into /proc/net/dev at _some_ point in the 2.1.xx development. (who kept track of the changes made here ?) so the byte count of the transmitter is mis-interpreted as error count... You're right, the numbers listed under TX-DRP belong to TX-ERR and so on, so the introduced column must be in the rcv part... |> |> Did anybody else notice and know why ? I'm still at 2.0.33 *blush*
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