From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Nov 23 15:10:16 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7A8DEF5CF for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:10:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22f.google.com (mail-io0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 537946EF76 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:10:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id q64so14053704iof.13 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 07:10:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Jph6Klm9iWnmocgZHPRFqmxdrjEVv47OQO5JqhnJ8wc=; b=WSYv9itbYluBLteVhYvI+0cwF5ZjNZuEMEJ+KTBnR+pyVkLNKeWEaMJt6Gu+eyotvO Z4pT3tSQC4PDrBWhLxSuW4y0+SA0vvnRW1Ce35nQFK5nIqxndmv0I+hK19IknJA5+OYN qtmVgMJpJWAL02uGW9x97Hla5cZfUcXtA/OBFdik7K6AABp+Ojzmlo+fQRaJW+k8/PDc 32bU2J661/2Iqvhp/TdumpSsZfnYpj3MqzdMRZ+i71UZ4y8e921TGzdI/ndArq1g22wh vq2NGPaAcS/sRrl+pxsKxbK7avSihj5PU7iZQ+P+78dDYMYnt6wrdafmFl79RZap8mL0 9Fig== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Jph6Klm9iWnmocgZHPRFqmxdrjEVv47OQO5JqhnJ8wc=; b=uQJJtpHpQJKKIsfI+ovuC14sGHYXRZ1RlKOjOOqXZZjfYvm2zxFtnMsDZncWaTnPwy Xt+w3lZwm/bgm0o7OoacioFYPdBFWGTkbCnPYNFOF1bDTFIGcuRp/LvI03ZajWEtPY4Q S/fi94ZhzeIZeSfAmEywpe0bckpQ36P08HsQ4ZqbingHFt3tI4sf0LZjP1YrhR2UGVaf GGNrNg31Uheeeso0F3zLFu+dx8re1QksihoLnSLeODUGenC7PZPfJBZjmDxRLku7gW2Q si0/hyyp8IBoOPpscnNAmLi8pi9+1LUDqvM/f27xV3+D/7LopS5AMDUExcakOonlaUBK xYyg== X-Gm-Message-State: AJaThX6auPmK7FrcRtPwZQbUvhty5OsV6HgqNk3aeS7JbxXHDDveBhac b2Wj+eK4l2bRdiDXxYmA+e5JMA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMbrRrzg0lC8jLxAGSPwxRn+3d/VKiqF6P47JoYN0W7wxgxDIazl10hyoKcuM5FHzSppeg5nqg== X-Received: by 10.107.131.17 with SMTP id f17mr29144721iod.100.1511449815640; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 07:10:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.10.7] (cpe-65-25-48-36.neo.res.rr.com. [65.25.48.36]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id e68sm6476504ite.0.2017.11.23.07.10.14 for (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Nov 2017 07:10:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5A16E4D6.3000009@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:10:14 -0500 From: Ernie Luzar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Interpreting netstat output Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:10:16 -0000 I keep seeing this in the periodic daily output. During the day I issue netstat -id command and I see the number of Oerrs increase on the vge0 interface. Network interface status: Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop Opkts Oerrs em0 1500 xxxxxx 430877 0 0 767138 0 em0 - 10.0.0.0/8 xxxxxx 5625 - - 5745 - vge0 1500 xxxxxx 2553560 0 0 434774 7 vge0 - 25.85.45.0/20 xxxxxx 1368 - - 1200 - What does this Out errors count really mean and what should I be doing about it?