Errors in IFCONFIG

**Radical Dreamer** · August 1st, 2004, 03:47 PM

I just did an IFCONFIG on our squid proxy server and was amazed that we had over 6000 errors listed! I have changed the NIC, catv cable, and the port on the router (cisco catalyst 3500) and still get the errors, the lights on the router show collisions. Is there a way that I can find out what is causing the errors? This is on a Fedora Core 2 box running the latest build of squid. Its very odd because the last box did the same thing (old slackware 8) and that was the reason for building the new one. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated

**TechZ** · August 1st, 2004, 04:05 PM

Umm, not wanting to interrupt or anything, but is ifconfig the same as ipconfig?

**Radical Dreamer** · August 2nd, 2004, 06:08 AM

Pretty much, IFCONFIG just gives a little more info

**TechZ** · August 2nd, 2004, 06:53 AM

But ifconfig is a linux only cmd, yes?

**+Daemon+** · August 2nd, 2004, 09:23 AM

yes ifconfig or ifcfg is for unix/linux macines only its how u configure your network hardware and find ip, mask info etc..

RD, what errors are you getting? are you getting them when you run ifconfig or are you looking at dmesg or a log file?

**Radical Dreamer** · August 2nd, 2004, 09:35 AM

When I run IFCONFIG to see the stats of my network interface it shows that there has been ~1GB in traffic and of that there has now been 8000 errors and all are in TX with 0 in RX