[tulip] overruns ?

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, James Stevenson wrote:

> > 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 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  ?

http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html

> > > 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

This still looks pretty much like a duplex mismatch.


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