[vortex] Another problem [was: Re: Problems with an 3Com driver ...]

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Lists (lst) wrote:

> Why after the 25 minutes of uptime I have a lots of errors on a 3Com509C 
> NIC?
...
> # uptime
>  1:40pm  up 25 min,  4 users,  load average: 1.14, 0.37, 0.23
> # ifconfig eth4
> eth4      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:DA:89:E9:BE
>           IPX/Ethernet 802.3 addr:19821230:0050DA89E9BE
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:14604 errors:3135 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3362
>           TX packets:38012 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:15440034 (14.7 Mb)  TX bytes:5217993 (4.9 Mb)
>           Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe000

This looks as if you forced full duplex on a autonegotiation link.


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