Ifconfig dropped packets

Try (i.e.

Ethtool dropped packets

for ), it's not perfect but it breaks down errors by transmit/receive and by carrier, window, fifo, crc, frame, length (and a few more) types of errors.

Drops are not the same as "ignored", show interface level statistics, a multicast packet ignored by a higher level (layer 3, the IP stack) won't show as a drop (though it might show up as "filtered" on some NIC stats).

Statistics may be complicated somewhat by various offload features.

You can get more stats if you have :

Some statistics depend on the NIC driver, as will the exact meaning. The above is from an Intel . Having looked at handful of drivers, some collect many more statistics than others (the stats available to ethtool tend to be kept in separate source file, e.g.

, if you need to rummage).

will show the driver details, the output of should be more detailed, though with a bit of clutter too.

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