[conspire] running ifconfig - getting errors and collisions

[Darlene Wallach]

I recently got dsl. Connectivity seems to have been working
very well until today.

I seem to keep losing connectivity and/or having connectivity
problems. Sometimes
$ ping -c4 www.google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com

$ ping -c4 www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (66.102.7.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 66.102.7.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=10.9 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.7.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=246 time=10.7 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.7.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=246 time=10.4 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.7.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=246 time=10.6 ms

--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 10.446/10.689/10.929/0.186 ms, pipe 2

$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:B7:79:FF:A2
           inet addr:68.183.66.92  Bcast:68.183.66.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe79:ffa2/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:151416 errors:258 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:258
           TX packets:111640 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:139 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:168631221 (160.8 MiB)  TX bytes:11995948 (11.4 MiB)

I called technical support - no reported problems.

What could be causing the errors in RX and the collisions? Is there
something I can do?

Are there other commands I can run to troubleshoot?

Thank you,

Darlene