From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 27 02:17:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA13233 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from peedub.muc.de (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA13223 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA18140 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:17:25 GMT Message-Id: <199709271117.LAA18140@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netstat -i for lo0 Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Sep 1997 03:02:26 +0200." <9709270102.AA04983@clio.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:17:25 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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