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    Lots of Errors in on lan and errors out on AP

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      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      What NIC is the WiFi port?

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        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @stephenw10
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        so your 32500 errors amounts to 0.000027 of the almost 1.2 billion packets in and your concerned?

        Your out is 0.0002 - I wouldn't be concerned with such numbers.

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          +1 on the counts are so low you probably don't need to worry.

          Given that your errors are mainly LAN-In & AP-Out, it sounds like packets going from the LAN to the AP ?

          If you really want to analyse them, maybe do a tcpdump or two on PfSense, and then look for error packets only in Wireshark ?

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            Omission0832 @johnpoz
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            @johnpoz not concerned really. More of a hey I've been using this thing for like 2 months and curious as to why it's giving errors in the first place and wanted to learn now how to figure out where the issue could be so that if it does become a problem later I know how to find it

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              Omission0832 @pwood999
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              @pwood999 thanks. I'll start there. But wouldn't it be from the AP to the LAN?

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                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                From the firewall/NIC view packets coming into the LAN and leaving the to AP would be like a LAN side client uploading a file to something on WiFi.

                If there's interference or just not available bandwidth you may see errors. Traffic over WiFi pretty much always sees some errors. But I would usually expect to see them on the AP interface only.

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                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @stephenw10
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                  no idea if those happened like 5 minutes before you posted or 2 months ago, or a slow 1 packet ever million or something.

                  Could be anything - I would only be concerned if they were constantly going up at some rate.. And made up a serious higher percentage than your seeing - could be a blip that happened with application glitch, worried about .00002 seems like a waste of everyone's time

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                    Omission0832 @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 thanks

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                      Omission0832 @johnpoz
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                      @johnpoz you dont have to answer.... we all start somewhere no? Not everyone knows everything about everything. Asked a question I wasnt sure about what the issue could be or if there was one. FWIW thanks to all who answered. ill bow out now and take my time elsewhere. jesus

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                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Omission0832
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                        @Omission0832 who said anyone has to know everything?

                        Your question is not what my point about is - my point is the numbers are insignificant to be concerned about.

                        For all we know they happened when a device was shutting down or booting up, or you had a spike in traffic that caused some errors.

                        you might want to look at netstat -s or netstat -sI interface for more detailed breakdown of errors.

                        But unless you see constant increase in errors or a high percentage of errors compared to total packets I wouldn't worry about see a few errors on an interface. something this is 0.000X of your total packets is nothing to be worried about

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