On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 08:21:36PM +0100, Liam J. Foy wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I have a patch against CURRENT which adds an option to netstat to reset
> ip, tcp, icmp and carp etc statistics. This idea was taken from the -z
> option in FreeBSDs netstat.
> 
> This is pretty handy if you're doing network testing/research with
> NetBSD. Anyone like this idea? If you guys do, I'll submit a patch for
> review.

Generally resetting stats is a bad idea since you don't actually know
how many different pieces of software are trying to read them.

Much better is to have a display program capable of showing you the deltas.

	David

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