LAN NIC - Errors IN - Low Volume Any Concern

ngr2001

What do you mean by a relink ?

Something on my lan side ?

stephenw10

Like a cable was replugged or whatever it connected to was rebooted. You can get some errors when happens.

So if you see a bunch of errors initially and then nothing additional that's different to seeing, say, a few errors per hour ongoing.

But either way I would not consider 348 errors out of 15M a particularly worrying amount. Even if I would prefer to see zero there.

ngr2001

@stephenw10

It seems like its slowly but steadily increasing for sure. I work from home and all my other devices are asleep. I don't normally look at these stats but I recently disabled the onboard X540 Intel NIC in favor of a new PCIe X550-T2 Nic. So naturally I've been looking over logs and settings and have been seeing this.

Would a packet capture help here, anything else I could be looking for as a sign.

I currently have both the WAN and LAN at 1Gb.

stephenw10

Hmm, what is it connected to? Does that show errors out?

The other thing to check is the sysctl stats for the interface. The ix driver quite recently started reporting all error types in the netstat output there so some errors that were always present suddenly appeared to the user! There are a few places in the output of sysctl dev.ix.3
For example:

dev.ix.3.mac_stats.rx_missed_packets: 0
dev.ix.3.mac_stats.rec_len_errs: 0
dev.ix.3.mac_stats.remote_faults: 0
dev.ix.3.mac_stats.local_faults: 2
dev.ix.3.mac_stats.short_discards: 0
dev.ix.3.mac_stats.byte_errs: 0
dev.ix.3.mac_stats.ill_errs: 0
dev.ix.3.mac_stats.crc_errs: 0
dev.ix.3.mac_stats.rx_errs: 0

Your NIC may not be ix3 obviously.

ngr2001

@stephenw10

Its connected to a Brocade ICX-7250 switch on port 48 at 1Gb. That port is only reporting 2 Errors since last reboot which was a long time ago.

Also, I rebooted PF since last post, my error count in GUI looks tied to this number,
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.rx_errs: 129

sysctl dev.ix.1
dev.ix.1.dmac: 0
dev.ix.1.fw_version: Option ROM V19-b5-p15 eTrack 0x80001509 PHY FW V523
dev.ix.1.enable_aim: 0
dev.ix.1.advertise_speed: 7
dev.ix.1.fc: 3
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.tx_frames_1024_1522: 10864334
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.tx_frames_512_1023: 347030
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.tx_frames_256_511: 193161
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.tx_frames_128_255: 181640
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.tx_frames_65_127: 769638
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.tx_frames_64: 45087
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.management_pkts_txd: 0
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.mcast_pkts_txd: 1103
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.bcast_pkts_txd: 59
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.good_pkts_txd: 12400890
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.total_pkts_txd: 12400890
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.good_octets_txd: 16169878821
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.checksum_errs: 2
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.management_pkts_drpd: 0
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.management_pkts_rcvd: 115970
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.recv_jabberd: 0
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dev.ix.1.mac_stats.recv_fragmented: 0
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.recv_undersized: 0
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dev.ix.1.mac_stats.rx_frames_512_1023: 179449
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.rx_frames_256_511: 61323
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.rx_frames_128_255: 170015
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.rx_frames_65_127: 3313453
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.rx_frames_64: 65551
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.bcast_pkts_rcvd: 4956
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.mcast_pkts_rcvd: 111014
dev.ix.1.mac_stats.good_pkts_rcvd: 5525170
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stephenw10

Yes and they all seem to be Receive Length Errors. No Out errors shown in the switch either, which might be expected.

I would at least try swapping and switch port if you haven't tried that yet.

I would also try re-assigning that interface if you can. See if the errors follow it or stay on the NIC.

ngr2001

@stephenw10

To clarify, you mean move the PF LAN connection to a different port on my switch, see if I still get errors, easy enough ?

Part 2, are you suggesting I swap my WAN connection from ix0 and move it to ix1 and vice versa, to see if I still get the same errors or if they follow, i.e perhaps just 1 of the 2 nics on the X550-T2 is bad / faulty ? Or even easier I guess I could re-enable the onboard nics and move the LAN connection over to one of them, granted my NDI does not freak out and pfsense+ goes down, not sure how that would behave.

stephenw10

Yes and yes! Swapping the physical port in use at either end is a good test if only to confirm there isn't a fault present.

ngr2001

@stephenw10

So I moved the LAN connection to 3 different ports on the switch, no change, still getting the slowly incrementing "Errors In". I also tried 1Gb and 10Gb ports, no difference.

I re-enabled the Onboard NIC in BIOS and oddly PFSense froze / halted on boot. Not sure what the deal is but seems like it does not like when i have both the onboard X540 and PCIe X550 enabled at the same time. I dont really want to unrack and rip out my X550 for this test, so not sure where else to go from here.

stephenw10

Hmm, odd. Where does it appear to freeze?

ngr2001

@stephenw10

Ill have to get a picture for you when I have a change to reboot.

ngr2001

@stephenw10

FYI,

I've since swapped LAN NICS, got the onboard working again. I also swapped switches and swapped the patch cable. So everything is different, yet I still get a slow trickle of LAN Errors IN.

This count is after 6 Days of uptime.

Old setup was X550 with Cisco 3850
Current setup is X540 with Cisco 3650
Same issue observed with both nics and when the switch was a brocade ICX-7250
Same issue observed regardless of NIC speed and connection type, RJ45 vs SPF+

Should I be concerned ? I'd love to know why this is happening.

stephenw10

I wouldn't be too concerned if you're not seeing any other issues.

Still the same error type shown in the sysctls?

ngr2001

@stephenw10

Correct same type, matches up.