Re: [osol-discuss] kstat/ snort

2008-02-27 Thread Gregor
Hi I don't think I can use netstat -s becuase it reports numbers from the kernel networking stack - tcp connections and so on. I am bypassing this stack and reading from the NIC in promiscous mode - into a packet sniffer program. NoCanPut is defined as 3. Ethernet Drivers and nocanput Failu

[osol-discuss] kstat/ snort

2008-02-15 Thread Gregor
Hi I want to figure out how many packets are getting dropped at the NIC when I use a packet sniffer like snort. When I try to access the nocanput figure via se nx.se at the same time as doing a tcpreplay (from another machine) and a tcpdump on the host interface - bge1- ( to simulate a busy net

[osol-discuss] Re: newbie - kstat help please - bytes not updated for my NIC on an x86

2007-03-05 Thread Gregor
ok i've moved the request - netstat doesn't seem to give me a byte count - i am trying to figure out how busy my card is thanks gregor This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolar

[osol-discuss] newbie - kstat help please - bytes not updated for my NIC on an x86

2007-03-02 Thread Gregor
Can anyone help me with this problem please? I am a Solaris newbie. When I run kstat -p -m e1000g -i 0 -n e1000g0 I can see that the packet count is being updated but not the byte counters. I get the same problem when I use nicstat - the packets/s are updated but the kB/s are not -they remain