That's one of the cool things about us Linux geeks. Show me a Windows user who will put effort into tracing down the source of 1 error in 11 million packet transmissions... Kenneth Stephen wrote: > Hi, > > Here is the output of my ifconfig : > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:05:EA:0B > inet addr:X.y.54.140 Bcast:X.Y.54.191 Mask:255.255.255.192 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:9162662 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:11040532 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:15 Base address:0xa000 > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:6D:1C:E3:3F > inet addr:X.Y.19.1 Bcast:X.Y.19.31 Mask:255.255.255.224 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:613065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:586288 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9000 > > eth1:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:6D:1C:E3:3F > inet addr:X.Y.19.2 Bcast:X.Y.19.31 Mask:255.255.255.224 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9000 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 > RX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > The kernel used is 2.2.20 and the driver is (for both cards) the > tulip driver (Comet chip). Packet forwarding takes place between eth0 and > eth1. Given that the one error seems to be on the TX line for both > interfaces, it seems that the errors originated from this machine. Are > there any tools I could use / parameters for the driver which I could set > to allow me to track down what is the cause of these errors? > > Thanks, > Kenneth > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Casey Carter Casey@Carter.net ccarter@uiuc.edu AIM: cartec69 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
