Re: What causes dropped packets on eth0?

The SethMeister (consp05@binghamton.edu)
Sat, 19 Apr 1997 04:30:14 -0400

GOD I WISH I KNEW WHERE TO GET A NEW VERSION OF IFCONFIG -- I have had
these problems too and All I can figure is that ifconfig is wrong because
the proc filesystem layout of /proc/net/info or something changed -- am i
right?
Where can I get an updated ifconfig? I checked all the placed (well
obviously not all :)).

-Seth

At 12:19 AM 4/18/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm not sure if this is caused by a bleeding edge kernel or not but...
>
>I have a P166 with a 3Com 3c595 "Vortex" ethernet card. I can ftp and
>telnet out from my box to other boxes on the network. But when trying
>to ftp or telnet into the box the ftp or telnet will just stall for
>minutes. Sometimes then I get a connection and everything seems to run
>all right except that future connections attempts will also stall.
>
>I just did /sbin/ifconfig eth0 and I get this:
>
>eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:89:A9:4F
> inet addr:192.43.34.1 Bcast:192.43.34.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:282 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:452 overruns:0
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6000
>
>why do I have dropped packets? Is this part of the problem causing the
>stall?
>
>Thanks,
>
>- jeff Wiegley
>