Re: [opensuse] Is 40 dropped packets out of 300,000 high? This is wired cat5 LAN.

On 05/30/2017 08:10 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

But what does that actually mean. Network gear is store and forward, so I assume a packet checksum is verified at every hop, including the switch that is mounted to my workstation.

Older switches could be configured for cut through, where the switch would start forwarding before it finished receiving a frame. This would allow corrupt frames through.

Or does it mean 6% of my packets are TCP packets coming in out of order and resends have to be requested? At that level it doesn't even understand IP. Those are Ethernet frame errors. TCP errors are 2 levels up the stack.

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