improper value display in net-tools statistics.c

[Brett Hawn]

when displaying the IpExt values (eg. netstat -s -e --raw), some values are incorrectly displayed:

netstat -s -e --raw | grep -A 5 IpExt
IpExt:
    InBcastPkts: 2422210
    InOctets: -111824737
    OutOctets: -1002951663
    InBcastOctets: 1366977025

This is due to the printval function taking an 'int' and thus truncating larger values

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[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

It is also solved in more recent version of netstat / net-tools, for example the git version. See below.

So why not upgrade to a more recent net-tools in Ubuntu? Can the maintainers take care of that?

Git-version:

sander@HPtje:~/git/net-tools$ ./netstat -s | grep -i octet
    InOctets: 8916276097
    OutOctets: 1457306418
    InMcastOctets: 34823
    OutMcastOctets: 33223
    InBcastOctets: 656
sander@HPtje:~/git/net-tools$
sander@HPtje:~/git/net-tools$ ./netstat --version
net-tools 2.10-alpha
Fred Baumgarten, Alan Cox, Bernd Eckenfels, Phil Blundell, Tuan Hoang, Brian Micek and others
+NEW_ADDRT +RTF_IRTT +RTF_REJECT +FW_MASQUERADE +I18N
AF: (inet) +UNIX +INET +INET6 +IPX +AX25 +NETROM +X25 +ATALK +ECONET +ROSE -BLUETOOTH
HW: +ETHER +ARC +SLIP +PPP +TUNNEL -TR +AX25 +NETROM +X25 +FR +ROSE +ASH +SIT +FDDI +HIPPI +HDLC/LAPB +EUI64
sander@HPtje:~/git/net-tools$

In Ubuntu's version of netstat, there is the 31-bit overflow error:

sander@HPtje:~$ netstat -s | grep -i octet
    InOctets: -1
    OutOctets: 1456778102
    InMcastOctets: 34396
    OutMcastOctets: 32852
    InBcastOctets: 656
sander@HPtje:~$

sander@HPtje:~$ netstat --version
net-tools 1.60
netstat 1.42 (2001-04-15)
Fred Baumgarten, Alan Cox, Bernd Eckenfels, Phil Blundell, Tuan Hoang and others
+NEW_ADDRT +RTF_IRTT +RTF_REJECT +FW_MASQUERADE +I18N
AF: (inet) +UNIX +INET +INET6 +IPX +AX25 +NETROM +X25 +ATALK +ECONET +ROSE
HW: +ETHER +ARC +SLIP +PPP +TUNNEL -TR +AX25 +NETROM +X25 +FR +ROSE +ASH +SIT +FDDI +HIPPI +HDLC/LAPB +EUI64
sander@HPtje:~$

sander@HPtje:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch)
Release: 13.10
Codename: saucy
sander@HPtje:~$