Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:31:46 GMT From: Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/162587: unclear/incomplete description of per-interface statistics flag in netstat(1) Message-ID: <201111151531.pAFFVkoW045998@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201111151540.pAFFe7R0006615@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 162587
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: unclear/incomplete description of per-interface statistics flag in netstat(1)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Nov 15 15:40:07 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas
>Release: 9.0-RC2
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD zfstest 9.0-RC2 FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 #1 r227515:227516M: Mon Nov 14 23:15:40 GMT 2011 root@zfstest:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZFSTEST amd64
>Description:
netstat(1) contains the following:
netstat -i | -I interface -s [-f protocol_family | -p protocol] [-M core]
[-N system]
Display per-interface statistics for each network protocol, for a
particular protocol_family, or for a single protocol.
however IPv4 (and maybe more, I dont know or how to find out,) does not support per interface statistics.
>How-To-Repeat:
[root@zfstest ~]# netstat -i -s -f inet
[root@zfstest ~]#
>Fix:
possibly reword to something like.
netstat -i | -I interface -s [-f protocol_family | -p protocol] [-M core]
[-N system]
Display per-interface statistics for each network protocol, for a
particular protocol_family, or for a single protocol. Currently
this is only supported for inet6.
Otherwise maybe exclude rather than include, it depends what is supported as leaving off the -f protocol_family only displays ip6 and icmp6 for me, but I dont use or know much about pfkey atalk netgraph or ipx, so i cant test them easily.
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