Hi, Here is the results of 'ifconfig > file; netstat -s >> file' on my system : eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:05:EA:0B inet addr:X.Y.54.140 Bcast:X.Y.54.191 Mask:255.255.255.192 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9813111 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11709191 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:15 Base address:0xa000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:6D:1C:E3:3F inet addr:X.Y.19.1 Bcast:X.Y.19.31 Mask:255.255.255.224 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:696141 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:661248 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9000 eth1:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:6D:1C:E3:3F inet addr:X.Y.19.2 Bcast:X.Y.19.31 Mask:255.255.255.224 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 tr0 Link encap:16/4 Mbps Token Ring HWaddr 00:20:35:86:65:5A inet addr:X.Y.83.1 Bcast:X.Y.83.31 Mask:255.255.255.224 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:2000 Metric:1 RX packets:11122600 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9222364 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:9 Base address:0x9100 Ip: 21583882 total packets received <----- Shouldnt this be 11122600 + 696141 + 981311 = 21631852 ? 21540362 forwarded 0 incoming packets discarded 12767 incoming packets delivered <----- What is this number? 16868 requests sent out 200 fragments failed <----- Is this a problem? Icmp: 554 ICMP messages received 0 input ICMP message failed. ICMP input histogram: destination unreachable: 1 echo requests: 526 echo replies: 27 889 ICMP messages sent 0 ICMP messages failed ICMP output histogram: destination unreachable: 338 time exceeded: 25 echo replies: 526 Tcp: 7 active connections openings 0 passive connection openings 0 failed connection attempts 0 connection resets received 1 connections established 11130 segments received <--|______ What are these numbers? 15656 segments send out <--| 34 segments retransmited 0 bad segments received. 29 resets sent <----- Is this a problem? Udp: 352 packets received 1 packets to unknown port received. <----???? 0 packet receive errors 354 packets sent TcpExt: SockMallocOOM: 0 Why does the total packets received number not match up to whats coming from 'ifconfig'? I'm running stock kernel 2.2.20 on a Debian distro . netstat --version reports : net-tools 1.54 netstat 1.38 (1999-04-20) ifconfig --version reports : net-tools 1.54 ifconfig 1.39 (1999-03-18) If it helps, here is the routing table : Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface X.Y.19.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 0 eth1 X.Y.83.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 0 tr0 X.Y.54.128 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.192 U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 X.Y.54.129 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Any ideas / answers would be appreciated. Thanks, Kenneth - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html