On Tuesday 09 September 2008 00:32, Daniel Bauer wrote:
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ok, gkrellm is not running anymore, and ifconfig shows that some dropped rx packets and some tx bytes :
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:905 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:23994 (23.4 Kb)
some seconds later, some more:
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:916 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:24420 (23.8 Kb)
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:959 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:26388 (25.7 Kb)
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:1036 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:30462 (29.7 Kb)
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:1155 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:34998 (34.1 Kb)
What is tx'ed here? Does this mean anything?
All the received packets are being dropped. I'm far from an expert on these things, but this must mean either they're not for any IP on the receiving host or they're not for the MAC that received the packet (which would imply the adaptor is in promiscuous mode, I think). It does seem odd to me that the transmitted byte count is going up while the transmitted packet count remains at zero. Can you communicate on the link whose activity is shown in these reports? Maybe it's receiving its own transmitted packets? Also, the ratio between the dropped packet count and the transmitted byte count, while not fixed, might be asymptotic to a number in the low 30s or so, which might be some kind of clue.
Daniel
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