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. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - gjennejohn@frt.dec.com
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