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Date:      Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:17:25 +0000
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netstat -i for lo0 
Message-ID:  <199709271117.LAA18140@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Sep 1997 03:02:26 %2B0200." <9709270102.AA04983@clio.rice.edu> 

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Kevin Keyser writes:
[snip]
>I have been seeing some strange behavior in my "netstat -i" numbers
>for the loopback.  Each time I run "netstat -i", ipkts and opkts are
>incremented by 48.  Note that it does not matter how long or short I
>wait between invocations; the change is always 48, like running
>netstat causes it.  In the example below, the machine is otherwise
>*very* idle, no cron jobs other than the install defaults, and is
>the only node up on my net.
>
[snip]

do you have named running locally ? If so, then you're probably
seeing name lookups, I would guess. Try doing "netstat -in"
(no name lookup) and see if you get the same behavior.

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Gary Jennejohn
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