xn0 interface "Obytes" not populating

Jason snakedoctr at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 19:35:15 UTC 2017


Sorry, I meant to say that the working machine uses the em interface (not
fxp like I mentioned).

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Jason <snakedoctr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>   I installed vnstat, which is a bandwidth monitoring app.  I noticed that
> for some reason its TX bytes were 0, but the RX bytes were being tracked as
> expected.  I don't know how vnstat is collecting its metrics every 5
> minutes, but I'm guessing it's similar to how 'netstat -I xn0 -bn' would
> collect its details.  After running 'netstat -I xn0 -bn', I notice that
> "Obytes" for "<Link#2>" is 0, which may be the problem.  However, the
> "Obytes" for the actual IP address seems to be working:
>
> # netstat -I xn0 -bn
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs Idrop
> Ibytes    Opkts Oerrs     Obytes  Coll
> xn0    1500 <Link#2>      <REDACTED>        22659117     0     0
> 2579194762 21221967     0          0     0
> xn0       - 10.0.10.0/24  10.0.10.40        22567359     -     -
> 2258113267 <(225)%20811-3267> 21130240     - 3518207522 <(351)%20820-7522>
>     -
>
> On a different machine that command works fine.  It is running BSD 11 as
> well, but it's not using the xn driver -- it uses the fxp driver.  It's
> output is:
>
> # netstat -I xn0 -bn
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs Idrop
> Ibytes    Opkts Oerrs     Obytes  Coll
> em0    1500 <Link#1>      <REDACTED>        1507204306     0     0
> 1567750969110 100389817     0 80619546746     0
> em0       - 192.168.10.0/ 192.168.10.10     1506281038     -     -
> 1548639235291 100283723     - 79211140098     -
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 11 on both instances, except the one that's having
> difficulty is running on AWS, so is on Xen.
>
> Any insight into how to fix this so "Obytes" populates for "Link#2"?
>
> Thanks!
>


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