Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:41:30 -0700 Received: from smtprch1.nortelnetworks.com ([192.135.215.14]:45015 "EHLO smtprch1.nortel.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:41:24 -0700 Received: from zrchb213.us.nortel.com (actually zrchb213) by smtprch1.nortel.com; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:36:34 -0500 Received: from zctwb003.asiapac.nortel.com ([47.152.32.111]) by zrchb213.us.nortel.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id NKANW2JP; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:37:42 -0500 Received: from pwold011.asiapac.nortel.com ([47.181.193.45]) by zctwb003.asiapac.nortel.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id NCLF816R; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:37:40 +1000 Received: from uow.edu.au (IDENT:akpm@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pwold011.asiapac.nortel.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07059; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:37:48 +1000 Message-ID: <39518A0C.59CFBFDC@uow.edu.au> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 03:37:48 +0000 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0-test1-ac10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: RFC: Reporting dropped packets References: <20000621075959.83F988193@halfway> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;netdev-outgoing Rusty Russell wrote: > > There are a number of places in the network code where we drop packets > which people might be interested in knowing about (eg. my nat code, > CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE). > > Be very nice if these were more flexible, and centralized. Does this affect drivers? Incoming packes dropped due to OOM, outgoing due to error recovery.