netstat -s output

[Maxim Konovalov]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, 11:19+0200, Bogdan TARU wrote:

>
>
> 	Hi hackers,
>
>  I have tried to find out the amount of traffic that one box sent (from
> the last reboot), and netstat -s seemed like a good choice. But netstat -s
> seems to generate incorrect results:
>
> tcp:
>         1730547260 packets sent
>                 1325234728 data packets (1119813018 bytes)
>                 28496801 data packets (151887376 bytes) retransmitted
>
>  This box generated a lot more than ~12Gb of tcp traffic since the last
> reboot. And I have not messed up with interfaces (up, down, whatever) OR
> with netstat -z in all this time. Any idea what could be wrong? Are the
> counters resetted sometimes, or they wrap sometimes, or...?

They wrap at 2^32.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov, maxim at macomnet.ru, maxim at FreeBSD.org