On Tuesday 09 September 2008 16:24:02, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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?
Hi Randal,
All the received packets are being dropped. I'm far from an expert on these things,
I'm even more far from an expert, much much more more far far :-)
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).
Ehm, if you'd say, I'm in promiscuous mode, I'd understand what you mean, but what does that mean in regard to the adaptor? Is that bad?
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?
I have no wireless here in Basel and all the others around here are encrypted, so i cannot say, if wireless actually would work. It shows other LANs right now and it worked in Spain, though.
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.
Randall Schulz
Huuh - even after asking wikipedia I don't understand "asymptotic" etc. However, that activity was during about 4 hours this morning and then it stopped. Now it's absolutely quiet on eth1... But if it happens once again, ist there a way to log what happens or to find out where the activity comes from? Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org