Re: unexplained network problems
At 02:11 PM 3/6/2004, Kevin Buhr wrote:
Oh, I see you found the logs.
Yes, except your explanation of the relationship between kernel and syslog
is most welcome and educational so thanks, just finished reading it.
BTW am I left to writing my own script if I wanted to grep the syslog for a
certain date that's already been archived or is there a command out there
to do this kind of thing already?
I now see that the driver only writes information about transmission
errors when its debug flag is set higher than the
default.
Where do you see that Kevin? And since I suspect an ongoing problem would
it make sense for me to change this to possibly capture more errors than
now, and if so, how?
Now that your machine's been running for a while without trouble, does the
"ifconfig" output show any accumulated transmission errors?
I don't see anything:
woody:~# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:40:3E:9B
inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:16384 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10759 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2033197 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:1423412 (1.3 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400
woody:~#
If not, I think your best bet is to try swapping cards with your wife's
machine to determine whether it's really a hardware or software problem.
Maybe this is a stupid way for me to approach it, but that definitely seems
like much more work than just waiting for a third occurrence of the
problem. And if it happens a third time the same way then I would next try
an hourly cron something like this {psuedo code only}
- ifconfig eth0 | grep (errors > 0)
then ifdown -eth0 &&
ifup -eth0 &&
echo "@`date` had to repair eth0 due to $errors detected
error(s)"
> /var/log/checketh0.log
else echo "@`date` no problems found
> /var/log/checketh0.log
Not that swapping the cards is /that/ big a deal but I actually enjoy
programming and only do hardware when I have no other choice. :}
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