Upon checking the output from ifconfig, I've noticed one of my ethernet
cards has an unusually high overrun count:
eth0
RX packets:893306935 errors:5 dropped:0 overruns:29316 frame:5
Coincidentally, eth2 on the same box has
RX packets:832545758 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:5116 frame:0
TX packets:873232422 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:152 carrier:0
eth0 is our lan interface and eth2 is our interface that corresponds
with the cable modem. I believe eth0 is a 3com NIC and eth2 is an
eepro100 card.
The box itself acts as a router for about 6 other machines in our lan
running kernel 2.6.
Testing this when transferring a 30 MB file to the router itself yielded
an increase in overruns. This seems abnormal as 29k overruns seems quite
high. The computer itself is somewhat overkill for router purposes so it
makes me wonder, is this an error in the driver or is there a bottleneck
somewhere else?
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