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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Path: sparky!uunet!dtint!tom
- From: tom@dtint.uucp (Thomas R. Kimpton)
- Subject: netstat reporting errors
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.222759.12319@dtint.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Technology, International
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 22:27:59 GMT
- Lines: 126
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- The reason I'm checking with netstat is because of general
- network slowdowns, "cold spots" (locations on the network
- that have slow response when others have timely response),
- and dropped connections to our database.
-
- Here is what I get when I run "netstat 3":
-
- input (le0) output input (Total) output
- packets errs packets errs colls packets errs packets errs colls
- 762576 27094 338335 3 1337 915470 27094 491229 3 1337
- 6 0 3 0 0 6 0 3 0 0
- 4 0 4 0 0 4 0 4 0 0
- ^C
- TCSH:dtint:19:/usr/tom> uptime
- 3:48pm up 9 days, 5:27, 3 users, load average: 0.89, 0.66, 0.50
-
- This is a 3.5% error rate on input packets! And for half that many
- output packets, I get 3 (!) errors.
-
- I can sit there and watch errors come in every 20-30 seconds!
- Needless to say this worries me. Also, isn't 1337 collisions out
- of line also?
-
- The netstat manual says, under "BUGS": "The notion of errors is
- ill-defined." I'd say that's an understatement, as they don't
- define what constitutes errors at all!
-
- Here's the "netstat -s" output:
-
- ip:
- 427627 total packets received
- 0 bad header checksums
- 0 with size smaller than minimum
- 0 with data size < data length
- 0 with header length < data size
- 0 with data length < header length
- 0 fragments received
- 0 fragments dropped (dup or out of space)
- 0 fragments dropped after timeout
- 0 packets forwarded
- 0 packets not forwardable
- 0 redirects sent
- 0 ip input queue drops
- icmp:
- 7 calls to icmp_error
- 0 errors not generated 'cuz old message too short
- 0 errors not generated 'cuz old message was icmp
- Output histogram:
- echo reply: 7
- destination unreachable: 7
- address mask reply: 217
- 0 messages with bad code fields
- 0 messages < minimum length
- 0 bad checksums
- 0 messages with bad length
- Input histogram:
- destination unreachable: 90
- echo: 7
- address mask request: 217
- 224 message responses generated
- tcp:
- 327686 packets sent
- 200899 data packets (54133320 bytes)
- 2311 data packets (1693689 bytes) retransmitted
- 80303 ack-only packets (24800 delayed)
- 7 URG only packets
- 142 window probe packets
- 3734 window update packets
- 40292 control packets
- 401908 packets received
- 233873 acks (for 54538831 bytes)
- 36313 duplicate acks
- 0 acks for unsent data
- 121270 packets (22488088 bytes) received in-sequence
- 3378 completely duplicate packets (6567 bytes)
- 0 packets with some dup. data (0 bytes duped)
- 13440 out-of-order packets (360254 bytes)
- 7 packets (5 bytes) of data after window
- 5 window probes
- 4684 window update packets
- 5 packets received after close
- 0 discarded for bad checksums
- 0 discarded for bad header offset fields
- 0 discarded because packet too short
- 13140 connection requests
- 13479 connection accepts
- 26218 connections established (including accepts)
- 26676 connections closed (including 185 drops)
- 449 embryonic connections dropped
- 232014 segments updated rtt (of 246951 attempts)
- 3226 retransmit timeouts
- 5 connections dropped by rexmit timeout
- 140 persist timeouts
- 11557 keepalive timeouts
- 11046 keepalive probes sent
- 354 connections dropped by keepalive
- udp:
- 0 incomplete headers
- 0 bad data length fields
- 0 bad checksums
- 0 socket overflows
-
- ==========
-
- Perusing this I can see things that would probably contribute
- to the 27K of errors, but, I don't really have a feel for
- what they mean, i.e. are duplicate packets counted as errors,
- out of order packets? window update packets? embryonic
- connections dropped? retransmit timeouts?
-
- I'd like to be able to turn this data into areas to look into
- to alleviate the problem(s), or people/programs to point
- fingers at so I can blame them :-).
-
- We are using this Sun as a Sybase server AND UShare EtherTalk
- AppleShare file server. On the network we have numerous Mac's,
- several PC's, a Novell fileserver, several LaserWriters with
- EtherPrint interfaces, and 1-3 other Sun's (they come and
- go for training purposes, setup, etc.).
-
- Thanks!
- --
- ---
- Tom Kimpton tom@dtint.dtint.com
- Digital Technology Int. (801)226-2984
- 500 W. 1200 South, Orem UT, 84057 FAX (801) 226-8438
-