Just a quick note on problem I came up against today.
I monitor one of my production servers (running Ubuntu 7.10 server) with Munin and through this I had noticed a lot of errors on network interface eth0.

I had a quick look with ifconfig eth0 to see what was going on. These were the lines of interest from the output:

RX packets:404933416 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:501341708 errors:31383248 dropped:0 overruns:11 carrier:62766496

Obviously something is not right.
I spent a while reading through log files to no avail, this isn’t really my area of expertise so I gave in and contacted my hosting provider.
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