Re: git: b5a8abe9502e - main - How to show interface traffic in bits per second

On 12/3/24 08:09, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> John Baldwin writes:
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>>> +When netstat reports every 8 seconds, it tells traffic in bits per second:
>>> +
>>> +$ netstat -I bge0 8
>>> +%
>>
>> Hmm, I'm pretty sure it's in bytes, and checking the code, it seems like show_stat()
>> in netstat/if.c just shows the raw delta in values without scaling it by 'interval',
>> so I think the counts are the number of bytes sent/received in 8 seconds:
> 
> And since
> 
> 	bytes/8 seconds == bits/second
> 
> Q.E.D

Ah, fair enough.  Clearly too subtle for my thick head. ;-)

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John Baldwin