How to reset netstat -s counters?

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August 28th, 2003, 07:29 AM
gunit0072003

How to reset netstat -s counters?

I dont know if this question has been asked before ,,searched threads without any luck..

Might be stupit question but here goes:

Does anyone know how to clear/reset the counters to output of netstat -s command on win2000 machines without having to reboot or log off?

TIA...
:)
August 28th, 2003, 10:58 AM
i2c

you should just be able to press ctrl-C to end a process in DOS, this works for everything ive ever used in DOS

when you press it my take a couple of seconds but a new clear prompt should be brought up

HTH

i2c

oooppps, think what i just posted may not have been what you were after,

to refresh the netstat -s menu you can put in an interval after the netstat -s

so "netstat -s 2" (with out quotes) redisplays netstat -s every 2 seconds

i2c
August 28th, 2003, 11:07 AM
gunit0072003

i2c,

I dont think that refreshes the counters,,,I want to reset all counters to zero, if it is possible..
August 28th, 2003, 01:23 PM
i2c

arrrhhhh i see, sorry about that.

why would you wanna do that? just out of interest,
August 28th, 2003, 02:26 PM
cheyenne1212

I'v searched google, and microsoft for you but the only thing I've found, is that netstat counters reset when 4GB transfers over the lan.

So if you don't have a lot of traffic then you'l lhave a bit of a wait.

Theres gotta be some way though. But I couldn't find it.
August 28th, 2003, 02:33 PM
corndog420

I came across this at www.dutchworks.nl:

Quote:

Well there is one way you can do that without rebooting. You can stop
/sbin/init.d/net and restart it. I have no idea what impact this will
have on your network if you do this on a server. It will all depend on
how your client machines interact with the server.

You could create a cron job to shutdown, restart and get your stats in
the early hours of the morning, giving all your clients time to reconnect
to the server for the likes of NIS, etc.

Regards,

Vance Brasher
Unix System Administrator
Dril-Quip Inc

Hope this helps, it was fairly outdated, and tough to find.

Corn
August 28th, 2003, 03:26 PM
gunit0072003

Theres no urgent need to be able to reset it,,Was just curious if it can be done,, I work alot with routers and figured another TCP/IP should have feature as well..

I think also just dawned on me,,although not the most preferrable method as simple command or two...if I remove TCP/IP and added it again,,might do the trick,,Ill try it,,

Thnx for feedback,,,

Just tried it,

Removing TCP/IP does reset the ****ers, hoewever I had to reboot for settings to take affect,,bad idea,,,lol..