On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Robert Milkowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OSOL, b118
>
>> milek at r600:~# flowadm show-flow
>> FLOW LINK IPADDR PROTO PORT DSFLD
>> local_25 iwh0 -- tcp 25 --
>> local_22 iwh0 -- tcp 22 --
>> milek at r600:~# flowadm show-flow -s -i 1
>> FLOW IPACKETS RBYTES IERRORS OPACKETS OBYTES OERRORS
>> local_25 0 0 0 0 0 0
>> local_25 0 0 0 0 0 0
>> ^C
>> milek at r600:~#
>
> So show-flow -s -i 1 displays only statistics for one flow. The man page
> says:
>
>
> flowadm(1M)
>> flowadm show-flow [-pP] [-s [-i interval]] [-o field[,...]]
>> [-l link] [flow]
>>
>> Show flow configuration information (the default) or
>> statistics, either for all flows, all flows on a link,
>> or for the specified flow.
> [...]
>> -s, --statistics
>>
>> Displays flow statistics.
>>
>> -i interval, --interval=interval
>>
>> Used with the -s option to specify an interval, in
>> seconds, at which statistics should be displayed. If
>> this option is not specified, statistics are
>> displayed once.
>
>
> Which rather suggest it will display statistics for all flows and not only
> first one.
>
> Looking at the code of flowadm.c from b120:
>
> flow_stats()
> [...]
>> /*
>> * If an interval is specified, continuously show the stats
>> * for only the first flow.
>> */
>> state->fs_firstonly = (interval != 0);
>
>
> Is there a reason why only first flow is displayed?
to keep it consistent with the behavior of the existing dladm show-link -s -i..
-venu
> If one wants stats for only one flow one can specify it... shouldn't all flow
> stats be displayed if not flow is specified?
>
>
>
> --
> Robert Milkowski
> http://milek.blogspot.com
>
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