[Regarding Packet Error]

[Archimedes Gaviola]

Hi,

I'm running a FreeBSD-6.2 RELEASE system on an Intel Gigabit copper NIC 
but when it receive packets, I encounter some errors with netstat. Below is
the netstat dump of my system. As what you can see, there is no dropping of
packets received but only errors at the input level of the interface. Does
anyone have any idea of what's going on at the entry of the packets? What
could be the possible causes of packet errors? Or what network data has 
been collected in the netstat when it displays error? Can someone 
explained how FreeBSD process packets when it enters the network system
in the kernel? This is to know how my system behaves before doing any step
for troubleshooting.

# netstat -I em0 -w 1 -d

            input          (em0)           output
   packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs      bytes colls drops
     16233  1410   24570946      13785     0     965516     0     0
     16065  1262   24318048      13210     0     930566     0     0
     19091  1152   28897958      15965     0    1119340     0     0
     16105  1341   24380062      13827     0     975404     0     0
     15999  1242   24215216      14073     0     991380     0     0
     16314  1526   24695034      13531     0     946110     0     0
     16319  1134   24699760      12704     0     886526     0     0
     16320  1253   24698795      13752     0     966382     0     0
     15900  1467   24065394      13529     0     953136     0     0
     16014  1285   24239412      13018     0     912128     0     0
     16219  1253   24549782      13003     0     911444     0     0
     16205  1245   24528586      13504     0     947206     0     0
     16003  1430   24222790      14052     0     997390     0     0
     16035  1381   24269784      12641     0     881562     0     0
     15909  1165   24074754      13608     0     956804     0     0
     15961  1511   24151964      13501     0     953862     0     0
     16217  1285   24542454      13245     0     925960     0     0
     16308  1272   24683106      12444     0     861054     0     0
     16323  1004   24707389      12764     0     888100     0     0
     16148  1096   24442256      12663     0     888614     0     0
     16534  1202   25026660      13348     0     941722     0     0

Thank you.




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