Kenneth Stephen wrote: > Hi, > > Here is the results of 'ifconfig > file; netstat -s >> file' on my > system : > [snip] > > Ip: > 21583882 total packets received <----- Shouldnt this be 11122600 + > 696141 + 981311 = 21631852 ? Only if every packet you received is an _IP_ packet (and you missed the "72" on the loopback interface). > 21540362 forwarded > 0 incoming packets discarded > 12767 incoming packets delivered <----- What is this number? The number of packets you received that were addressed to his machine (and not simply forwarded to another). > 16868 requests sent out > 200 fragments failed <----- Is this a problem? Hard to say. The important figure is the percentage of fragmented packets that failed in reassembly. With 21 million packets, I don't think 200 dropped fragments is excessive. > 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 <--| Number of packets received / sent that were TCP packets. > 34 segments retransmited > 0 bad segments received. > 29 resets sent <----- Is this a problem? no. > Udp: > 352 packets received > 1 packets to unknown port received. <----???? Someone sent you a packet to a port on which no program was listening. > 0 packet receive errors > 354 packets sent > TcpExt: > SockMallocOOM: 0 > > [snip] > 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 > -- Casey Carter Casey@Carter.net ccarter@uiuc.edu AIM: cartec69 - : 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
