[tulip] overruns ?

[James Stevenson]

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, James Stevenson wrote:
> > i have 2 cards from SMC each in 2 different computers and a 100mbps
switch
> > both work fine well almost in Full Duplex 100mbps.
>
> What is the detection message?
>
> What does 'mii-diag' or 'tulip-diag -m' report?

not sure where can i get the utility ?
http://www.scyld.com  ?

> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:E2:1E:FE:B3
> >           RX packets:1339805 errors:356 dropped:0 overruns:356 frame:356
> >           TX packets:1403114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>
> This could be a duplex mismatch.  If the link partner is not in full
> duplex mode, it will abort transmit on out-of-window collisions.  You
> will interpret that as receiving packets with CRC errors.
>
> There are other possibilities.  What does /proc/net/dev report?

 face    bytes    packets     errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast
eth0    531841837 1702596      356    0  356   356          0        0

bytes        packets     errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
1065809667    1866746    0    0    0    0       0          0

any ideas what would cause it ?

thanks
    James