[Info-vax] PEA0: Errors

[Richard Brodie]

"Christoph Gartmann" <gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de> wrote in message 
news:gootg7$mej$1 at news.belwue.de...

>   FCS Rx          : 0                  Drops Tx        : 2,654,260
>   Alignment Rx    : 0                Collisions Tx   : 117,101
>   Runts Rx        : 0                  Late Colln Tx   : 0
>   Giants Rx       : 0                  Excessive Colln : 0

Those look clean enough, drops and collisions I would ignore. It's the
counters that are all 0 here I would worry about. Any of the other
cluster members showing significant numbers there, like the one(s)
the switch log calls out, for example?

>  So I assume these "drops" are nothing to worry about.

It just means that there are bursts of traffic that the switch port can't
forward. That's not unexpected where you have some 10Mbit/s
systems, although it does make them somewhat vulnerable to a
DoS attack (whether intentional or otherwise).