[conspire] running ifconfig - getting errors and collisions

[Darlene Wallach]

Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Darlene Wallach (freepalestin at dslextreme.com):
> 
> Darlene, almost certainly completely unrelated to your DSL-connectivity
> problem, but I happened to notice something else in your shell
> transcript:
> 
> 
>>$ /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)
> 
> 
> Unless you snipped it for posting purposes, your lack of a loopback
> interface (in that ifconfig output) points to a very significant
> problem:  The system talks directly to interface "lo" for many internal
> purposes, and without it being valid will overfill the ARP table and
> misbehave in a number of odd ways.  "/sbin/ifconfig" output should look
> more like this:
> 

Rick,

Thank you. I did indeed snip the loopback thinking that it was 
unnecessary for my problem and question. I guess I should have
included it or at least stated that I snipped it.

Darlene