Re: ifconfig -> TX packets 0, errors:18425

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:18:42 +1200

On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 11:38:09AM +0200, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> First of all I'd like to say that I'm quite a newbie with
> development kernels... I've just compiled a 2.1.95 kernel,
> everything works fine but I get some strange things with
> ifconfig...
>
> An ifconfig with the 2.0.33 kernel looks like this:

[...]

> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0

> While with the 2.1.95 it looks like this:

> RX packets:339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:18425 dropped:270 overruns:0 carrier:0

> See that the TX packets on the lo and ippp0 (isdn) interfaces are 0 and
> that the errors keep piling up... The strange thing is that I am
> connected to
> the internet right now over the ippp0 interface and things seem to be
> going
> OK...

update your net-tools.

see linux/Documntation/Changes for details.

-cw

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