ifconfig packet drops reported after upgrading to RHEL7
Issue
- ifconfig reports rx drops for servers, physical or VMware guests, after upgrading to RHEL7
ip -s linkreports therx_droppedcounter increasing.- RHEL7 ifconfig show rx drops while RHEL 6.X guests running on the very same ESX host or cluster show no rx drops
- Any NIC hardware type
netstat -ireportsRX-ERRandRX-DRP
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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