On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Scott Dudley wrote:

|I know this is not the correct forum but was wondering if someone could
|explain to me the cause of the following errors (errors: 97, frame: 97
|and carrier: 1):
|
|eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:5A:0B:88:E7
|          inet addr:128.1.2.100  Bcast:128.1.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
|          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
|          RX packets:202299 errors:97 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:97
|          TX packets:357785 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
|          collisions:64811
|          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400

I can't say where the errors come from but ethernets are not error-free and
the error rate depends on the types of OS's and hardware on the net as well
as the load. I _can_ point out that these 97 errors represent 0.05 % of the
total RX packets which is likely an acceptable figure. 

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Clifford Kite                                               Not a guru. (tm)


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