On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 22:52:56 -0600
David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/18/20 9:48 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:44:35 -0600 David Ahern wrote:  
> >> On 9/16/20 1:42 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:  
> >>> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP 
> >>> mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> >>>     link/ether 00:0a:f7:c1:4d:38 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >>>     RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
> >>>     6.04T      4.67G    0       0       0       67.7M
> >>>     RX errors: length   crc     frame   fifo    missed
> >>>                0        0       0       0       7
> >>>     TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns
> >>>     3.13T      2.76G    0       0       0       0
> >>>     TX errors: aborted  fifo   window heartbeat transns
> >>>                0        0       0       0       6
> >>>
> >>> After:
> >>>
> >>> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP 
> >>> mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> >>>     link/ether 00:0a:f7:c1:4d:38 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >>>     RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped missed  mcast
> >>>     6.04T      4.67G    0       0       7       67.7M
> >>>     RX errors: length   crc     frame   fifo    overrun
> >>>                0        0       0       0       0
> >>>     TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns
> >>>     3.13T      2.76G    0       0       0       0
> >>>     TX errors: aborted  fifo   window heartbeat transns
> >>>                0        0       0       0       6    
> >>
> >> changes to ip output are usually not allowed.  
> > 
> > Does that mean "no" or "you need to be more convincing"? :)
> > 
> > JSON output is not changed. I don't think we care about screen
> > scrapers. If we cared about people how interpret values based 
> > on their position in the output we would break that with every
> > release, no?
> >   
> 
> In this case you are not adding or inserting a new column, you are
> changing the meaning of an existing column.
> 
> It's an 'error' stat so probably not as sensitive. I do not have a
> strong religion on it since it seems to be making the error stat more up
> to date.

Is there any way to see the old error column at all?

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