[SDBUG] Re: Read CRC errors from NIC using BSD

[Bill Studenmund]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:04:24AM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Brian wrote:
> >J. Cordaro wrote:
> >>Hey Guys, I was wondering if there was a standard way to poll or
> >>count the number of CRC errors at the PHY level of a NIC card or GLOM?
> >>-Jay
> 
> They don't get "logged" in dmesg?

No. They can happen very quickly on a bad net, and networks are designed 
to deal with lost packets. Also, it could turn into a denial of service, 
as all I have to do is send you bad packets and you spend all your time 
logging that fact.

Take care,

Bill
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 186 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.m5computersecurity.com/pipermail/sdbug/attachments/20050623/94f4f9ac/attachment.bin