Subject: Re: nightly report "network" section.
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/07/2003 17:27:33
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Hi,
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:09:24AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Would anyone mind if I replaced that with
> netstat -in | cut -c 1-6,44-80 | fgrep -v "*" | uniq
> which would produce this far more elegant and IMHO far more useful report=
?:
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> network:
> Name Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Colls
> lo0 1948 0 1948 0 0
> wi0 544786 0 359623 115 5279
while the packet statistics are more readable... the address information=20
might well be useful to have a log of whether the addresses changed. And the
* devices might be useful to see whether devices were configured/unconfigur=
ed.
Maybe split it into an active interface statistics section (like you propos=
ed)
and the full stuff, maybe with the statistics columns removed?
Regards,
-is
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