[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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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