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Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 08:52:27 +0100
From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>
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Subject: NIC congestion - indicators?
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Hi,

I've a couple of boxes which *might* be hitting the ceiling for their NIC's 
(i.e. using all the bandwidth on the link).

Other than looking at 'systat -if' - is there anything in netstat's output 
(or anywhere else) that would indicate the system is either heavily queuing 
outgoing packets - or binning them off?

Thanks,

-Karl