On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Michael Chan wrote:

Andrew Morton wrote:

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# uptime ; ifconfig eth0|grep "RX p"; ethtool -S eth0|grep disc
 01:07:31 up 6 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.04
          RX packets:2234 errors:0 dropped:527 overruns:0 frame:0
     rx_discards: 0
     rx_fw_discards: 527

Please report rx_bcast_packets and rx_mcast_packets together with
rx_fw_discards.  Thanks.

# ethtool -S eth0|egrep "(rx_bcast_packets|rx_mcast_packets|rx_fw_discards)"
      rx_mcast_packets: 2806
      rx_bcast_packets: 790016
      rx_fw_discards: 790016

Best regards,

 				Krzysztof Olędzki