> > 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