Random Network Droping, advice needed

[Jim Radford]

On Tuesday 16 Mar 2004 8:57 pm, Jim Radford wrote:

> > > > Look at the error stats for the adapter in ifconfig.
> > >
> > > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr ??:??:??:??:??:??
> > >         inet addr:???.???.???.???  Bcast:???.???.???.???
> > > Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> > >         RX packets:10127698 errors:186786 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > > frame:279486 TX packets:7781618 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> > >         RX bytes:3488952219 (3327.3 Mb)  TX bytes:565796174 (539.5 Mb)
> > >         Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000
> > >
> > > So, I see errors there - what does that tell me? Sorry for not
> > > understanding.

Walking to work this morning, I realised why I had that many errors. A couple 
of times I've been asked to either pull my network cable or switch off my 
router whilst the Telco ran tests at the exchange. That would cause that 
amount of errors wouldn't it?

Anyway - I rebooted tonight and I've only had 2 errors in 4.5hrs.

-- 
Jim Radford
   "If at first you don't succeed - change the DC"