Re: ntp time requests

Rio <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Bill Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:43:19 -0400
> Rio <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > hmm. maybe..  i have had it monitoring since 4pm my time it is now 11:30pm 
and 
> > no data on the monitors. i have 2 ntp labels in the chart, 1 for current 
> > connections and one to maintain number of connections history for 24 hrs.. 
> > 
> > ntp utilities report there have been 834 time requests since 4pm. the 
script i 
> > have to run is a bit of a problem getting these stats..
> 
> Yeah, you would think some of those would have been detected.
> The monitor is looking at the /proc/net/udp file where the connections
> should appear.  I guess to test this would take scanning that file much more
> often than the inet montor once per second to see if the port ever shows up.
> It might be a bit of trouble, but in case you want to try something,
> the format of the first part of each line from that file
> should be the same as the docs say for the /proc/net/tcp file:
> 
>    46: 010310AC:9C4C 030310AC:1770 01 
>    |      |      |      |      |   |--> connection state
>    |      |      |      |      |------> remote TCP port number
>    |      |      |      |-------------> remote IPv4 address
>    |      |      |--------------------> local TCP port number
>    |      |---------------------------> local IPv4 address
>    |----------------------------------> number of entry
> 
> Uh, look at that diagram in a fixed width font viewer...
> 

i checked several of our servers for a comparison. some  the first item counts 
sequentially with no deviation, however it repeats 123 for several pages.

 others jump. i have a number of 123 entries in that column in all servers. it 
appears to be the decimal of the local tcp port number 7B.


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