From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 15:31:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E3937B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:31:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:29:53 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0ENVYJ39949; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:31:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:31:34 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Michael T. Gray" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet size Message-ID: <20010114153134.Q97980@rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexco> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <3A620694.7A56A41A@nampa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3A620694.7A56A41A@nampa.net>; from mtg@nampa.net on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:05:40PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:05:40PM -0700, Michael T. Gray wrote: > Hello, > When I receive mail from the root, it talks about packets. > InPackets and OutPackets. How big are they? Are you talking about the "Network interface status" in the daily run output? Packet sizes vary in size. The information in the daily run mail is the output of 'netstat -i'. If you want to see byte totals too, which is what I am guessing your mail is getting at, try 'netstat -ib'. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message