Major Description
Start a two router network and run qdstat like this —
[gmurthy@localhost qpid-dispatch]$ qdstat -b 0.0.0.0:28641 -g Router Statistics attr value ================================================= Version 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT Mode interior Router Id QDR.B Area 0 Link Routes 0 Auto Links 0 Links 6 Nodes 1 Addresses 10 Connections 2 Presettled Count 135 Dropped Presettled Count 0 Accepted Count 0 Rejected Count 0 Released Count 0 Modified Count 0 Ingress Count 136 Egress Count 0 Transit Count 12 Deliveries from Route Container 0 Deliveries to Route Container 0 [gmurthy@localhost qpid-dispatch]$
Notice that the "Ingress Count" keeps increasing even if no messages were sent/received.
The ingress count must not count the HELLO messages that the routers exchange over the inter-router control link