Re: ifconfig TX/RX errors

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Donald Becker wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Cheng Jin wrote:
>
> > What does a large number of RX/TX errors from ifconfig output generally
> > mean?  Does it also include drop/overruns/frame errors?
>
> The 'ifconfig' program doesn't have a defined behavior.  It reads
> /proc/net/dev and sums some of the available error counts.  You should
> read /proc/net/dev directly to find out what is going wrong.
>

Actually, unbelievable as it may sound, the ifconfig data
matches SNMP stats as defined in RFC1213 interfaces table;
same with things like netstat -s in the tcp data etc

cheers,
jamal