On Fri, 11 May 2012 14:33:27 +0100, Shaun wrote: > Background. > > I have a machine with two NIC interfaces. I run them in a bond (failover > mode). I then have a bridging interface, br0, which uses bond0. > > The bond0 is showing errors in ifconfig -a. > > bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:ad:6f:92:eb:c3 > inet6 addr: fe80::baac:6eff:fe92:ebc3/64 Scope:Link UP > BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX > packets:4445581 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX > packets:1487769 errors:1084 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1084 > collisions:2657 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:423232914 (403.6 MiB) TX bytes:389781613 (371.7 MiB) > > If I look at the slave devices eth1 shows no errors whereas eth0 does. > Not too surprising ass the active slave is currently eth0.
A couple of articles talking about transmission errors: http://www.johnnypez.com/linux/ifconfig-eth0-shows-packet-errors/ http://www.linuxweblog.com/ifconfig-packet-errors > br0 is used by various KVM VMs all with static IPs. My question is I've > not noticed any untoward misbehaviour of any networked services. But is > this something I should worry about/investigate. And if so how? While the amount of packet errors is not very high (1084) it's something to watch :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jojcjo$pnh$1...@dough.gmane.org
