Transmit timeouts

[Jay Freeman (saurik)]

Daniel:

Just a suggestion, but you might want to leave the mii-diag running for a
while so it gets data during one of these faults (you don't seem to be
getting the faults anywhere near as often as I am though, which might make
waiting for it difficult...)

[root(2)@ironclad log]# grep "^Sep  7" messages | grep "kernel: eth0: Trying
to restart the transmitter..." | wc -l
     80
[root(2)@ironclad log]# grep "^Sep  [567]" messages | grep "kernel: eth0:
Trying to restart the transmitter..." | wc -l
    145

And I am not even under considerable load (I run a personal server, with two
people who check their POP mail every now and then, and myself who uses IMAP
a lot and an occasional single remote X session).  It usually happens when I
try to copy a large file off using SMB, or when I do something that requires
a rather large redraw on X.  The network I am on doesn't even get much
traffic on it either. :(

Sincerely,
Jay Freeman (saurik)
<saurik@saurik.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:Daniel.Veillard@w3.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 4:53 PM
> To: linux-eepro100@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Cc: Jay Freeman (saurik)
> Subject: Re: Transmit timeouts
>
>< ... >
>
> [root@rpmfind /tmp]# ./mii-diag
> Using the default interface 'eth0'.
> Basic registers of MII PHY #1:  3100 786b 2000 5c01 01e1 41e1 0003 0000.
>  Basic mode control register 0x3100: Auto-negotiation enabled.
>  Basic mode status register 0x786b ... 786f.
>    Link status: previously broken, but now reestablished.
>    *** Link Jabber! ***
>  Your link partner can do 41e1: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
>
>< ... >
>
>   This machine has a Tulip card for the secundary and a 3c595 tertiary,
> if needed I can switch interfaces.
>  Is there anything else I can provide to debug the problem ?
>
> Daniel
>
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