frame errors in ifconfig output?

[David Bandel]

On 6/16/06, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Want to find a chatty card, try running 'watch ifconfig eth0'
>
> Thanks for this. I don't seem to see the use of a command till someone
> demonstrates it. Then I'm all like "that is beautiful in it's
> simplicity".
>
> Network monitoring is seems easy in theory. But I'm finding in practice
> it takes a few years of trying different tools especially when
> networking isn't what you do day to day.
>
> I have formed a friendship with:
>         ttcp (write raw packets to a specific port on a remote machine
> to test through-put)
>         iptraf (watch connections on an interface as they happen)

also netwatch, statnet

>         ethereal (packet inspection)

hmm.  just a pretty tcpdump.  Will stick with the basics (tcpdump),
since that's what I've used for more years than I care to think about.

>                 we had a problem with certain types of binary files not
> transferring across a radio link turned out the firmware in some of the
> routers was choking on the content.
>         nagios (monitor just about any host / service / link in a web
> interface)

mon works too.

>
> I don't use the tools enough to become proficient but every now and
> again they become life savers.

yep.

David A. Bandel
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