What the ifstat command displays

You might want to display statistics maintained by the networking code, the network adapter, or the network driver. The ifstat command displays these statistics gathered from the time of the last reboot or from the last time you cleared them.

Note: If you use the ifstat command on a storage system that is part of an active/active configuration, the resulting information pertains only to the storage system on which the command was run. The information does not include statistics for the cluster partner.

The output of the ifstat command might contain many kinds of information, because different types of interfaces--for example, Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet--generate different types of statistics.

Parent topic: Network interface information you can display