On 2000-04-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello I have a Dual Dell box, with raid, 512 Mb ram, RH6.1 and all that.
> Here's the problem when I run ifconfig
> RX packets:85345569 errors:767996 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:767889337
> The server is co-located and its bandwidth is being caped at 20MB, can
> anyone tell me what to do ?
The most likely problem is that you have a mismatched/too old version of
'ifconfig'. Besides the huge 'overruns' number you noticed, did you
realize it's reporting _zero_ packets transmitted? That's be cause the
/proc file that lists these statistics has changed formats occasionally,
(particularly, between the 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels) and ifconfig must be
modified each time to keep parsing it correctly.
If this is the case, you need to upgrade your ifconfig (rpm -qf
/sbin/ifconfig to verify which package you need to look for, probably
net-tools-something), and in the meantime just do cat /proc/net/dev to see
the raw numbers and reassure yourself that your machine is in fact pushing
packets ;)
But the question is, how did your RH6.1 box get this way? I don't use
RedHat, but I hadn't heard that RH had goofed this way. Did you upgrade
this box from RH 5.x manually, and this is perhaps a missed package?
> The server is co-located and its bandwidth is being caped at 20MB, can
> anyone tell me what to do ?
In the new format, the first two columns -- interpreted above as "RX
packets" and "errors" -- are "RX bytes" and "RX packets". So those are not
a problem. And what's reported above as "TX overruns" is probably the
ninth column, which is now "TX bytes". So, you probably have nothing to
worry about at all. Check /proc/net/dev to be sure.
--
Hank Leininger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
