Ethernet diagnostics software

[Jonathan Duncan]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, rorith at kydance.net wrote:

> Output of ifconfig. Notice the 'RX/TX Packets' lines, with errors,
> dropped, and whatnot.
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:1A:19:2F:76
>          inet addr:209.90.77.96  Bcast:209.90.77.127  Mask:255.255.255.192
>          inet6 addr: fe80::200:1aff:fe19:2f76/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:52551893 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:59455918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:6905352431 (6585.4 Mb)  TX bytes:39305941535 (37485.0 Mb)
>          Interrupt:31
>
>

I forgot that ifconfig did that.  Good reminder.

Jonathan