RX packet errors problem

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Swaine Lin Chen wrote:

> My problem is this: my eth0 interface gives me lots (up to 1%) of RX 
> packet errors.  The card is a 3c590 10Mbit PCI adapter in a 200MHz PPro
..
> slchen@vegas:~> /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx  
>           RX packets:103088 errors:205 dropped:205 overruns:0 frame:389
>           TX packets:9057 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:2 txqueuelen:100 

Check /proc/net/dev for better stats.
Hmmm, that's a very low collision number.  Verify that you haven't forced
full duplex somehow.  That would explain Rx errors.

Or perhaps some other host is set to full duplex.  The usually, but not
always, results in Tx errors rather than only Rx errors.

> 3c59x.c:v0.99L 5/28/99 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
> eth0: 3Com 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0xff80,  xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 10
>   8K byte-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
> eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is 248.

Note: you only need to shroud your Ethernet address when you have
Wake-On-LAN boards :-O.

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, becker@scyld.com

-------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe send a message body containing "unsubscribe"
to linux-vortex-bug-request@beowulf.org