Bug 59818

Summary:	netstat -ic only shows data for one iteration
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Korey Chapman <korey>
Component:	net-tools	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	nigel.metheringham, rvokal, scott_edlund
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Description Korey Chapman 2002-02-13 17:07:53 UTC

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Description of problem:
The output of 'netstat -ic' is wrong.
It will show the field headings and interface data for the first itteration, and
then subsequent itterations only show the field headings and no data.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run 'netstat -ic'
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  Here are the first three itterations from 'netstat -ic',
net-tools-1.60-3 on a 7.2 box (2.4.9-21 kernel):
Iface   MTU Met   RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR   TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0   1500   0 1364387     18      0      0 4061495     14      0     13 BNRU
lo    16436   0    3592      0      0      0    3592      0      0      0 LRU
Iface   MTU Met   RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR   TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
Iface   MTU Met   RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR   TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg

Expected Results:  Here are the first three itterations from 'netstat -ic',
net-tools-1.57-6 on a 7.1 box (2.4.9-21 kernel):
Iface   MTU Met    RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR    TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0   1500   0 19417406      3      0      0 39446714      2      0      0 BRU
lo    16436   0      764      0      0      0      764      0      0      0 LRU
Iface   MTU Met    RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR    TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0   1500   0 19417442      3      0      0 39446734      2      0      0 BRU
lo    16436   0      764      0      0      0      764      0      0      0 LRU
Iface   MTU Met    RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR    TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0   1500   0 19417475      3      0      0 39446754      2      0      0 BRU
lo    16436   0      764      0      0      0      764      0      0      0 LRU

Additional info:

This was working in 7.1, but is not working in 7.2.  The output seems to be
incorrect every time, on every 7.2 box I have tried.

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2002-02-24 17:07:26 UTC

Thats really strange. I'll take a look into it before the next versions goes out.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 2 Nigel Metheringham 2002-04-23 12:19:28 UTC

Looks like its in the current betas from the package version number (not tested
this through).

Debian has same bug - its from the upstream.  Fix is apparently
in pipeline, but not appeared as yet.

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=109164&repeatmerged=yes

Comment 3 Phil Knirsch 2002-04-23 12:29:06 UTC

Cool, thanks for the info.

Waiting for upstream to fix it then. :-)

Read ya, Phil

Comment 4 Scott Edlund 2002-09-04 18:36:53 UTC

netstat -ic first run should show cumalitive data, subsequent runs should show
delta's.  Please see patch added to bug id#64862 that provides this desired (and
UNIX like) behaviour.

Comment 5 Phil Knirsch 2003-02-11 14:25:07 UTC

Included patch and it works nicely again. Thanks for the patch. :-)

Read ya, Phil