[K12OSN] ifconfig errors

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Wed Oct 26 22:45:39 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 13:35, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> Anyone know what would cause these errors in RX
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:07:E9:3F:F5:6C
>           inet addr:192.168.0.254  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::207:e9ff:fe3f:f56c/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:34225847 errors:840978 dropped:840978 overruns:523 frame:0
>           TX packets:48842325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:1566565931 (1.4 GiB)  TX bytes:1865622785 (1.7 GiB)
>           Base address:0x3040 Memory:feac0000-feae0000

Usually it's a duplex mismatch with the connected switch or a bad
or overly long cable somewhere, but it could also be a bad NIC
somewhere.  I don't think you'll see those packets with iptraf,
tcpdump or the like because they are being discarded at the
card/driver level.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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