Large number of Misc Discarded packets

[Johan Adolfsson]

I get the following from 
date; cat /proc/net/wireless /proc/net/dev
when streaming data.
Any ideas on the reason for this or ways to track it down?


Fri Jul  4 13:37:35 GMT 2008
Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               | Missed
| WE
 face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc | beacon
| 22
  eth1: 0002   83.  -60.  -93.       0   8283 399597 236597 59631647
0
Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes
packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo:358632450  170615    0    0    0     0          0         0 358632450
170615    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth0: 6484505   32757    0    0    0     0          0         0   884512
2921    6    0    0     0       6          0
  sit0:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        0
0    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth1: 8076459  121188    0    0    0    43          0         0 367757128
263472    0    0    0     0       0          0


Fri Jul  4 13:40:15 GMT 2008
Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               | Missed
| WE
 face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc | beacon
| 22
  eth1: 0002   80.  -64.  -94.       0   8283 434192 256856 64723855
0
Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes
packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo:388772746  185313    0    0    0     0          0         0 388772746
185313    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth0: 7026643   35485    0    0    0     0          0         0   934133
3099    6    0    0     0       6          0
  sit0:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        0
0    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth1: 8735986  131096    0    0    0    45          0         0 398630908
285487    0    0    0     0       0          0

time      13:40:15 - 13:37:35 = 2415 - 2255 = 160
txpackets:  285487 -    263472 =    22015
txbytes: 398630908 - 367757128 = 30873780  ==> 192961 bytes/s = 1.5Mbit/s
misc      64723855  - 59631647 =  5092208