On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 technews@egsx.com wrote: > We have a highly (network) loaded server, running redhat 6.2. The card is > using tulip driver. > > This is the output of ifconfig (note:IPs in this post are not real numbers) > eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:E0:A2:52 > inet addr:222.222.8.118 Bcast:222.222.8.127 Mask:255.255.255.240 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:23883054 errors:181152 dropped:0 overruns:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:95989676 > > We are getting tons of overruns, and I do not know how to fix this > I tried setting the card via the /etc/conf.module, but nothing changed I suspect that this is not a kernel bug, but a reporting problem caused by using an old version 'ifconfig'. An incompatible change was made in the format of /proc/net/dev. The change added byte counts, and thus shifted the fields over into the former "error" counts. Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
