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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: bge Ierr rate increase from 5.3R -> 6.1R]
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Robin Gruyters wrote:

> On 13-Jan-2007 Oleg Bulyzhin wrote:
>> 
>> > Could you please test attached patch? It should fix ierrs issue and 
>> should not
>> > break link events (would be fine to test it: unplug/plug cable, try to 
>> change
>> > media with ifconfig, change media on other end of wire).
>
> Just wondering will this patch/update be available for RELENG_6? I have the 
> same problems here with 3 of our servers.
> ...
> And here the netstat interface statistics:
> [...]
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs 
> Coll
> ...
> bge0   1500 <Link#5>      00:12:79:94:ed:12 11343768 2114510 20564242     0 
> 0
> bge1*  1500 <Link#6>      00:12:79:94:ed:11        0     0        0     0 
> 0

I think the bug fixed by the patch couldn't cause so many errors (unless
Ipkts has overflowed and the uptime more than a week).

Bruce