Re: dropped RX packets - belongs this to firehol?

Daniel Heckl <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:27:01 +0200
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Hi Costa,

yes, I see them in ifconfig. Thanks for your answer.

Referred to https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7007165 I should ignore the dropped RX packets...

Daniel

> Am 19.07.2016 um 15:24 schrieb Tsaousis, Costa <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> where do you see dropped packets? ifconfig?
> If yes, firehol has nothing to do with it. Dropped packets by firehol are logged to syslog by iptables. They do not affect anything at the network interfaces.
> 
> Costa
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Daniel Heckl <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I use Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS with Kernel 4.4. For quite some time I notice dropped RX packets (e.g. 502), but I have no restrictions.
> 
> Belongs this to firehol, e.g. increases the counter if firehol/iptables drops an packet? Is this normal?
> 
> Thanks
> Daniel
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