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SubjectRe: Van J compression?
On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 05:21:37PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> In article <19990103161811.A4142@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
> Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> >> All standards say that packets with wrong checksum should be silently
> >> dropped, 2.2 will do that and turn off that debugging, I repeat,
> >> debugging message.
>
> > Understood. However, please include a /proc option to turn the messages
> > on. There is a genuine problem around, and it's due to something more
> > significant than bit errors.
>
> No.
>
> There is a counter in the TCP/IP/UDP MIB (/proc/net/snmp). That is enough.

It is not enough, because

1. It does not allow us to associate the checksum
errors with the erroneous packets (e.g., in a PPP log).

2. It is useful to see which IP addresses are causing errors.

-- Jamie

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