Inaccurate ethernet statistics.

Nicholas M. Kirsch (nkirsch@biznatch.nick.org)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 11:03:54 -0700 (PDT)


Ever since upgrading my three linux boxes to a development kernel
2.1.110+, the ethernet statistics reported by ifconfig have been extremely
off. These statistics were reported just fine under 2.0.3x.

In particular, the RX seems to be high, and TX is always 0. There are
either a lot of errors, or a lot of dropped packets.

I'm running on a 100 BT LAN, and have no problems communicating between
the computers. It seems to be purely a reporting problem.

If anyone has any idea? Or perhaps I need to upgrade to a newer version of
net-utils or something? I'm running slackware 3.5.

Thanks, please cc to me.

Nicholas

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