On 0, Dave Eidson <deidson@bluenorthernsoftware.com> wrote: > Ever since upgrading from Potato to Woody on a box with a 2.4.4 kernel, the > eth0 device starting getting errors... lots of errors. ifconfig shows > anywhere from 80 to 150 errors after 2 hours of reasonably heavy Internet > activity. I replaced the patch cable from the PC to the hub, tried different > ports on the hub, (eventually trying a new hub) without any changes in the > error situation. I figured it must be the NIC going south so I replaced it > (RTL8139) with a 3Com. Same scenario. Many errors on eth0. I can put any > of the NIC's in question into a Potato machine and they run error free. But > it seems that any combination of cables/hubs/NIC's that I put into the Woody > machine will rack up a boat load of errors. There is no indication of > problems, web surfing, mail, etc,etc seem to run fine on Woody. But ifconfig > seems to indicate differently. Does anyone have any ideas on what Woody > might have changed as far as the network interfaces that would cause this? > It really looks like a hardware problem to me, but I think I've eliminated > all posibilities there with a 'when in doubt, swap it out' approach. Any > suggestions are appreciated! As I understand TCP/IP, erroneous packets will be resent, so errors don't worry you too much. If you try anything UDP then you will have a higher than average packet error rate. May I ask why you are using 2.4.4? I use 2.4.18 quite successfully out of the box... Tom > inet addr:192.168.0.162 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:4052 errors:24 dropped:2 overruns:20 frame:0 > TX packets:4083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:2135524 (2.0 MiB) TX bytes:413420 (403.7 KiB) > Interrupt:10 > > -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Other people's priorities are endlessly odd." - Kingsley Amis Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
Attachment:
pgptccjLPtHph.pgp
Description: PGP signature