[H-GEN] Solaris Question

[James C. McPherson]

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On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 17:02:57 +1000 "Scott Pullen" <spullen at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Does anyone know a Solaris command to show how congested an interface is.  I 
> want to know more than just how many packets have been transmitted.  I want to 
> know if an interface is reaching its limit,


congested? how about 

netstat -I ge0 1

which shows ge0's input and output statistic. Note that the output below is 
from a system with 79 days uptime (since last patching), 80+ users every day
and an average load in the teens (sunray server for a branch office):


$  netstat -I ge0 1
    input   ge0       output           input  (Total)    output
packets errs  packets errs  colls  packets errs  packets errs  colls 
-1653739244 0     36088958 0     0      1706558313 23    -1188794798 0     0     
409     0     919     0     0      2405    0     2713    0     0     
271     0     473     0     0      2058    0     2204    0     0     
322     0     714     0     0      1902    0     2246    0     0     
313     0     468     0     0      1930    0     2045    0     0     
295     0     591     0     0      1945    0     2168    0     0     


does that help you?

you could also check kstat (netstat -k pre solaris 8).

hth,

James C. McPherson
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