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Subject: Re: ath Ierrs
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On Wednesday 31 December 2003 11:20 am, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> # athstats
> >> 4 tx management frames
> >> 12 tx frames discarded prior to association
> >> 10 short on-chip tx retries
> >> 233 rx failed 'cuz of bad CRC
> >> 30 periodic calibrations
> >> 575 rate control checks
> >>
> >> # netstat -ni
> >> # netstat -in
> >> Name    Mtu Network     Address           Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs 
> >> Coll em0    1500 <Link#1>    00:0d:60:3b:5c:df     0     0        0    
> >> 0     0 ath0   1500 <Link#2>    00:05:4e:41:ee:cd 48705  3768    51091  
> >>   0     0 ^^^^
> >> ath0   1500 192.168.0   192.168.0.10      48177     -    51033     -    
> >> - lo0   16384 <Link#3>                      24314     0    24314     0  
> >>   0 lo0   16384 127         127.0.0.1         24314     -    24314     -
> >>     - vmnet  1500 <Link#4>    00:bd:d8:2a:00:01     0     0        1    
> >> 0     0 vmnet  1500 192.168.254 192.168.254.1         0     -        0  
> >>   -     -
> >
> > I see nothing unusual here.
>
> how about anything ungood? <grin>
>
> i did not expect rx crcs.  should i consider them normal?
>

Yes.

> in the same environment, it was exceedingly rare to get any
> errors with a different laptop running 4.9-stable and an
> orinoco wi card.

The wi card likely did not report them to the host.  

	Sam