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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:20:12 -0400
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From: Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu>
Subject: netstat uses signed numbers for traffic counting?
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I'm kind of curious as to whether theres a reason that netstat uses signed
numbers for keeping track of the number of bytes that have been
sent/received.  Quite honestly it would make more sense to me (unless
there's actually a reason for it) to use an unsigned number.  Here's the
edited output for a machine I admin (edited for some clarity sake):

Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs     Ibytes 
de0   1500  <Link>00.00.c0.c5.6e.d5       39360140     7 -1838703748

Note the Ibytes value.


Gary Schrock
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