[Bug 1415159] [NEW] netstat giving negative octet values

[davidg]

Public bug reported:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release:    10.04
Codename:   lucid
I keep getting the following from netstat -us:

IcmpMsg:
    InType3: 103
    InType8: 12
    OutType0: 12
    OutType3: 268
    OutType11: 6
Udp:
    999114787 packets received
    1524847 packets to unknown port received.
    5882127 packet receive errors
    1003746107 packets sent
UdpLite:
IpExt:
    InMcastPkts: 143997
    OutMcastPkts: 3885
    InBcastPkts: 99976
    OutBcastPkts: 2455
    InOctets: -1042835510
    OutOctets: -62785229
    InMcastOctets: 15435060
    OutMcastOctets: 135125
    InBcastOctets: 13591924
    OutBcastOctets: 326303
The bug has been fixed in this bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561161


 I have tried updating net-tools package to utopic (14.10) but I get the following errors: npacking replacement libnih-dbus1 ... dpkg-deb: file `/var/cache/apt/archives/libnih-dbus1_1.0.3-4ubuntu26_amd64.deb' contains ununderstood data member data.tar.xz , giving up dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libnih-dbus1_1.0.3-4ubuntu26_amd64.deb (--unpack): –

** Affects: net-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  netstat giving negative octet values

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