Dan Nelson wrote:
> 

> Something to do would be to enable hardware checksumming on 1/2 your
> machines, and compare the bad packet counts at reported by netstat on
> the unchanged machines for (say) a 1-month period before and after the
> change.  That should tell you whether you're gaining or losing
> reliability.  It'll be really easy for me, as my current (software
> cksum) stats show no errors at all:

the trouble is that if you are trying to find errors between RAM and WIRE
then the checksums will be correct regardless of whether there is an error..
so the counts you are checking would be no use..
you need to know what the correct packet contents should be..

> 

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