> But netstat -I xl0 -w 10 during the same interval when the
> above were coming down at 5-10 per second showed:
>
> input (xl0) output
>packets errs bytespackets errs bytes colls
> 32 0 4019 28 0 4573 0
>
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:38:11AM -0700, Sherwood Botsford wrote:
>
> In a session trying to track down a problem related to a bad
> cable, I found that:
>
> tcpdump -i xl0 -v -v -v host pop.incentre.net
>
> So you can see that nearly half of the packets have bad
> checksums.
As I recall,
Netstat errors are those errors reported by the Hardware(NIC) for e.g,
buffer underrun overrun etc,They do not check for errors in tcp layer.
Sreekanth
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