[Fwd: Re: bge Ierr rate increase from 5.3R -> 6.1R]

[Robin Gruyters]

Quoting Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au>:

> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Robin Gruyters wrote:
>
>> On 13-Jan-2007 Oleg Bulyzhin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Could you please test attached patch? It should fix ierrs issue and
>>> should not
>>>> break link events (would be fine to test it: unplug/plug cable, try
>>> to change
>>>> media with ifconfig, change media on other end of wire).
>>
>> Just wondering will this patch/update be available for RELENG_6? I   
>> have the same problems here with 3 of our servers.
>> ...
>> And here the netstat interface statistics:
>> [...]
>> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts  
>>  Oerrs Coll
>> ...
>> bge0   1500 <Link#5>      00:12:79:94:ed:12 11343768 2114510   
>> 20564242     0 0
>> bge1*  1500 <Link#6>      00:12:79:94:ed:11        0     0        0     0 0
>
> I think the bug fixed by the patch couldn't cause so many errors (unless
> Ipkts has overflowed and the uptime more than a week).
>
The server was up almost for 11 days.

[...]
  8:56AM  up 10 days, 17:13, 1 user, load averages: 0.03, 0.04, 0.02
[...]

- Robin