[Trilug-ontopic] ifconfig question.

[Jason Watts]

Guys, hopefully these are two quick questions.

when I do an ifconfig -a on one of my boxes, I see a fairly large number of
overruns.

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:173319141 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:46678 frame:0
          TX packets:194764057 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:1809166178 (1725.3 Mb)  TX bytes:102562715 (97.8 Mb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb800 Memory:ec0c3000-ec0c3038

My 2 questions.

1)  How often do these numbers reset?

2)  to me, 47k seems like a large number, especially when all my other boxes
are showing none, but what would be an acceptable number?  (I realize this
is relative, but I'm asking for opinions as this is the first time I have
ever researched this stuff and have little idea.)

Thanks for any input and advice.

jsn
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