netstat count option

Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com
Wed Apr 21 14:47:07 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Dmitry Banschikov <ubique at peterhost.ru> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wrote small patch to the netstat utility.
> The patch allows to specify how many times, the display output should be continue,
> in case of option -w.
> Usage:
> # ./netstat -w2 -c2
>            input        (Total)           output
>   packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs      bytes colls
>        15     0       2268         13     0       1190     0
>         4     0        240          5     0        278     0
> #
>
> Option -c [count] is simillar to the same option in iostat utility.
> In linux -c means continious output:
>   -c, --continuous
>       This will cause netstat to print the selected information every second continuously.

This seems pretty useful, perhaps you should file a PR?

http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

-Brandon


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