Re: network interface overruns - how I can get hold of this with snmp?

Per Jessen <[email protected]>
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Dave Shield wrote:

> On 6 April 2012 14:49, Per Jessen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm looking for the "overruns:" number as in the ifconfig display:
>>
>> # ifconfig eth5
>> eth5      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:B3:8D:CF:F6
>> RX packets:2799 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>> RX bytes:168911 (164.9 Kb)  TX bytes:1697 (1.6 Kb)
>>
>>
>> I'll double check if that is what I get in Discards, thanks.
> 
> I don't think it is, no.
> Looking at the /proc/net/dev format, this looks as follows:
> 
> 
> Inter-|   Receive                                                | 
> Transmit
>  face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed
> multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>     lo:27538514  310470    0    0    0     0          0         0
> 27538514  310470    0    0    0     0       0          0
>   eth0:2762421755 80087525    0    0    0     0          0   7286360
> 3905086444 50271882    0    0    0     0       0          0
> 
> It's a little difficult to be sure which zero corresponds with which,
> but I strongly suspect that "overruns" in the ifconfig output
> corresponds to the "fifo" field in /proc/net/dev

It does, I can confirm that:

# ifconfig eth3
eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:B3:8D:CF:F6
          inet addr:212.25.11.138  Bcast:212.25.11.191  Mask:255.255.255.192
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:b3ff:fe8d:cff6/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:213391405 errors:445 dropped:0 overruns:3817 frame:4262
          TX packets:67362386 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:641390161 (611.6 Mb)  TX bytes:265792249 (253.4 Mb)

# cat  /proc/net/dev
Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo:  204860    2414    0    0    0     0          0         0   204860    2414    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth3:641390461 213391410  445    0 3817  4262          0         0 265792249 67362386    0    0    0     0       0          0



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