Re: netstat output misleading

Derrik (dpates@kalifornia.com)
Thu, 28 May 1998 10:33:39 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 28 May 1998, Eva R Hocks wrote:

>
> Eversince I installed the 2.1.x kernel I noticed a misleading information
> from the netstat command. There are not that many Transmit-errors (TX-ERR)
> on the interfaces, neither lo nor ippp0. From the /proc/net/dev
> information looks like the columns are shifted to the right for 1 col.

Yes, and there's a reason for this - you should've read the
Documentation/Changes file. The latest net-tools package (1.45, which I
have) handles this properly. Make sure you've updated all that you must
(according to Changes). There're good reasons for all the updates.

Derrik Pates
dpates@kalifornia.com
dpates@acm.org

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