2.1.90-x breaks ifconfig somehow..

David Burrows (snadge@gemcorp.com.au)
Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:59:45 +1000 (EST)

I compiled and tested pre-2.1.90-1 on a 486dx33 with 8mb ram, which I use
as an ip masqing ppp gateway.. Anyway, I was having problems with tcp
stalling on this kernel so on the advice of someone else switched to
pre-2.1.90-2, which eliminated the problem.. However I noticed this:

[snadge@bernie snadge]$ /sbin/ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:16994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:1427034 dropped:16994 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:2C:25:39
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4219 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:80 errors:1026993 dropped:4083 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x300

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:203.108.221.18 P-t-P:203.108.221.15 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:445 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3
TX packets:0 errors:17342 dropped:533 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0

Those numbers don't look right at all, everything seems to be working
fine.. Why is this? Its impossible that the ppp device hasn't sent a
packet successfully, because I'm using it and its working fine.. Same with
the loopback device, and as far as I can tell eth0 is working perfectly.

I've tried the latest version of net-tools, with the same result.

Cheers,

Dave.

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