All I am looking at confirming if netstat returns 32 bit counters when you call netstat -bni -I nic# I tracked this down to the bflag variable whic is in src/usr.bin/netstat/netstat.h extern int bflag; /* show i/f total bytes in/out */ Does anyone know why this is a signed int , and not a u_long ? -- mark saad | nonesuch at longcount.org