[vortex] Some info on the 3c905C card

Bogdan Costescu bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Tue Apr 22 10:14:02 2003


On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Puneet Zaroo wrote:

> I want to know whether the card maintains statistics (probably in some
> register) about the frames dropped because of unaivailable descriptors
> and how to read this value.

I believe that you are looking for the "Rx fifo" field from /proc/net/dev 
or the "Rx overruns" field from ifconfig output.

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