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To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@rflab1.gtri.gatech.edu>
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Subject: Re: strange netstat errors 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jul 95 03:38:08 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 00:45:07 -0700
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>	I've been getting occasional strange error messages from netstat, 
>usually something like this:  (this is under 2.0.5)
>
>----
>Active Internet connections
>Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
>tcp        0      0  wc206.auth             wc115.1123             TIME_WAIT
>netstat: kvm_read: kvm_read: Bad address

   This can happen whenever the internal state of the kernel changes while the
information is being read. It can be made somewhat more robust and I might
take a stab at it before 2.1R.

-DG