Usage Stats bug in Freebsd?

[jmstacey]

The usage stats for device whatever on the server stats page in the admin account shows -0 whenever it goes over a certain ammount, and usually right after a DoS attack when the usage spikes. It also continued after a full reinstallation that I had to do some time back.

Its not a major concern or problem just wanted to know if any others have experienced this with freebsd 4.9 or red hat, and if this is a control panel bug or a os bug. And I don't think DoS attacks would mess it up since it is only major bw usage and it doesn't need to access the server from the outside...

[DirectAdmin Support]

What stats are you referring to? The total counted bandwidth that DA counts, or the total that is returned by the ethernet device? If it's the device, then try running:


/usr/bin/netstat -f inet -b -I ethernet_device
To see if that is where the -0 is coming from.

John

[jmstacey]

Will do next time it happens

[jmstacey]

Alright, it happened again. In directadmin is shows up as -0 for total ammount transmitted so I ran that command and it output this:

Name: rs
Mtu: 0bytes
Network: Coll
And nothing for the rest

So I restarted and ran that command and it came up with the same output, but of course DA is counting correctly again for half a day or so... :confused:

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

So.. to clarify, is DA incorrectly parsing the output, or is the output not including the bandwidth stats?

John

[jmstacey]

I'm not sure yet. What is the command that DA uses to get the stats so I can see what the OS reports as your previous command didn't turn anything up whether or not it was working

I attached a screen shot.

[DirectAdmin Support]

/usr/bin/netstat -f inet -b -I ethernet_deviceJohn

[jmstacey]

Alright looks like a DA problem. Running that command it shows all the information so I don't think its a OS problem anymore.

Here is what that command displays even when their is a -0 in that DA column.



Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Ibytes Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll
fxp0 1500 65.254.44.168 ls802 23786778 - 2139254548 22974828 - 1476332425 -
fxp0 1500 65.254.44.171 65.254.44.171 18853 - 1389329 24 - 1514 -
fxp0 1500 65.254.44.172 65.254.44.172 1 - 60 0 - 0 -
fxp0 1500 65.254.44.173 65.254.44.173 2 - 103 0 - 0 -
fxp0 1500 65.254.44.174 65.254.44.174 55 - 4667 0 - 0 -

The Ibytes and Obytes are constantly increasing as data is transfered like it should be so its not a Operating System error as far as I can tell..

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Thanks for the info. Problem solved, was just a simple parsing fix for the case where there is only 1 space between items.

John

[jmstacey]

Great, it will be in the next release then?

[DirectAdmin Support]

you bet :)

John