Re: Monitoring packet loss
- In reply to: Navdeep Parhar : "Re: Monitoring packet loss"
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Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 02:05:51 UTC
On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 7:21 PM Navdeep Parhar <np@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 8/7/24 7:06 AM, Alan Somers wrote: > > I'd like to track the rate of packet loss for outbound packets from > > some production servers. Obviously, that's impossible. But I think > > that the rate of TCP retransmissions should be a close proxy for > > packet loss. Currently I can only observe TCP retransmissions by > > using wireshark, a slow and laborious process. But it seems to me > > that the network stack should already have that information > > The kernel already maintains a VNET-virtualized tcpstat structure for > aggregate TCP stats. netstat and systat grab these using the > net.inet.tcp.stats sysctl. This might work for you if you're okay with > global and not per-interface information. > > VNET_PCPUSTAT_DECLARE(struct tcpstat, tcpstat); /* tcp statistics */ > > $ netstat -sp tcp | grep -iE 'retr|rexm' > $ systat -tcp Yes, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you!