drop packets

[Miguel Garcia Silvente]

Hi all,

I am using linux 2.1.122 on a PC, I have a 3C905 and I have a lot of dropped packets, I
have tried to solve it using vortex-diag, etc but nothing.
Please put my address in your Cc because I am not in the mailing list.

Thanks in advance

I get the following results:

netstat -i
Iface     MTU Met  RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR  TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flags
lo       3924   0   8316      0      0      0      0 1099572   8316      0 LRU
eth0     1500   0   6685      7      0      0      0      0   1536      0 BRU

vortex-diag -aa
vortex-diag.c:v1.05 5/22/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Found a 3Com PCI Ethernet 3c905 rev 0 at 0x6400.
The Vortex chip may be active, so FIFO registers will not be read.
To see all register values use the '-f' flag.
Initial window 7, registers values by window:
  Window 0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00bf ffff 0000.
  Window 1: FIFO FIFO 0000 2000 8000 00ff 13fc 2000.
  Window 2: 6000 5e08 0372 0000 0000 0000 06c6 4000.
  Window 3: 02d8 0063 0000 0000 e040 0bff 13ff 6000.
  Window 4: 0000 06d0 0000 0cc0 0003 8802 0000 8000.
  Window 5: 1ffc fffc 06c6 0600 0007 069e 06c6 a000.
  Window 6: 0000 0000 0000 4b00 0000 3021 0460 c000.
  Window 7: f9d8 0184 0000 0000 8000 00ff 500c e000.
Vortex chip registers at 0x6400
  0x6410: **FIFO** **FIFO** 00008000 000013fc
  0x6420: 00000021 00000000 0105d012 060005d2
  0x6430: 00000000 000011a1 0184f9e0 00000000
 No interrupt sources are pending.
 Transceiver/media interfaces available:  MII.
 MAC settings: half-duplex.

 cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packets errs
drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo: 1100116    8320    0    0    0     0          0         0  1100116    8320
0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth0:       0    6824    7    0    0    14          0         0        0    1556
0    0    0    15       0          0