RE: [9fans] stats: ethererr

[Dean Ash <Dean.Ash@Ingenix.com>]

>> - crc means your packets are trashed when they get received
Received by whom or what? the DHCP server? or my p9 machine? if it's my
machine doing the trashing is there a way to fix it? if they're getting
trashed by the dhcp server what can I do to fix that, especially since I
have to go through a network admin =)

The other stuff was greek to me. Tx, rx? what is that apparently I need to
read a book on basic networking and ethernet cards.

Thanks for the info though. Maybe this is related to my ip/ipconfig not
actually printing anything in debug mode. although that sounds like a leap
so I'm sure it's unrelated.

-----Original Message-----
From: Boyd Roberts [mailto:boyd@fr.inter.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:23 PM
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] stats: ethererr


From: "Dean Ash" <Dean.Ash@Ingenix.com>
>
> in:61
> out: 54
> crc errs: 21
> overflows: 0
> soft overflows: 0
> framing errs: 34
> buffer errs: 36
> outputs errs: 0
> prom: 0
> addr: 00010266eff9
> 
> Can anyone tell me what this means? I'm guessing that the addr is the
> physical address of my ethernet card but I'm probably wrong.

oh, that is bad.  heaps of crc, framing and buffer errors -- real bad.

iirc:

   - crc means your packets are trashed when they get received
   - framing could be on the tx or the rx side (i forget)
   - buffer prolly indicates memory problems on the tx or rx side

the addr has 48 bits so it's the MAC address.