Re: [CentOS] script to monitor interface errors

surprise, surprise

I have a similar situation. On a very slow Pentium I machine, runing 2.2.XXX kernel, sometimes I have overruns and frame errors, which choke up the interface and I have to restart it using The overruns are due to torrent traffic generated by one of the geeks here.

ifconfig eth1 down ifconfig eth1 up

So I was thinking of using a cron job and a simple script that restarts the interface, provided the errors have increased since last check.

information is available from within /proc/net/dev its just a case of formatting that somehow and then comparing the 2 values over a time period