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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:37:54 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Robert Watson <robert@fledge.watson.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netstat -nbi display 
Message-ID:  <199610102337.QAA27817@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 1996 18:36:30 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.95.961010183407.743A-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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>Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs     Ibytes
>Opkts Oerrs     Obytes  Coll
>ed0   1500  <Link>00.00.c0.77.bb.a8        2412232     1  280810240
>2496396     6 -2140892732 108368
>ed0   1500  128.2         128.2.89.13      2412232     1  280810240
>2496396     6 -2140892732 108368
>lo0   16384 <Link>                          115334     0   15639183
>115334     0   15639183     0
>lo0   16384 127           127.0.0.1         115334     0   15639183
>115334     0   15639183     0
>
>As may not be apparent from the output, my output byte counter wraps
>around about every day or two when running a reasonable-size website.  Is
>there any way I can get it to *not* wrap and as such give a reasonable
>display of network use?

   Only once a day or two? :-) It wraps about once an hour on wcarchive. :-)
The only way to fix this is to increase the size of the stats to 64bit. I
think this has been proposed before, but noone has gone and done it.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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