From owner-freebsd-net Thu Dec 5 21:34: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6228037B404 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:34:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from isber.ucsb.edu (research.isber.ucsb.edu [128.111.147.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E11543EB2 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:34:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randall@isber.ucsb.edu) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=research.isber.ucsb.edu) by isber.ucsb.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 18KB7V-000A2S-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 21:33:49 -0800 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:33:49 -0800 (PST) From: randall ehren To: Barney Wolff Cc: , Subject: Re: concurrent connections In-Reply-To: <20021206005942.GA19655@tp.databus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanner: exiscan *18KB7V-000A2S-00*ET0e0YlLTkY* (ISBER - Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research) Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > netstat -n |grep EST |wc -l thank you. let me make the grain a little bit finer: i have a freebsd box acting as a IPFilter bridge for a class c subnet - is there any way i can view how many concurrent connections this machine is handling? netstat -s returns: root@fw[~]% netstat -s tcp: 81157 packets sent ... 83237 packets received ... 360 connection requests 4466 connection accepts 4783 connections established (including accepts) 4823 connections closed (including 0 drops) ... are any of the stats returned by netstat -s an indication of the current amount of connections? -- :// randall s. ehren :// voice 805.893.5632 :// systems administrator :// isber|survey|avss.ucsb.edu :// institute for social, behavioral, and economic research To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message