Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-27 Thread Rcca
Check your active network components. The network card, and the switck may 
speak the speed auto 
negotiation with dialect. Therefore they can always negotiate, and there will 
no valuable traffic.

If it is, set the link speed  manually.

R.






Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-27 Thread Rcca
Check your active network components. The network card, and the switck may speak the 
speed auto 
negotiation with dialect. Therefore they can always negotiate, and there will no 
valuable traffic.

If it is, set the link speed  manually.

R.




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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-26 Thread Roman Medina

mta-mad:~# mii-tool 
eth0: negotiated 100baseT4 flow-control, link ok

 Saludos,
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:31:07 +0800, you wrote:

>Run mii-tool and see what speed your card is using first.
>
>- Original Message - 
>From: "Roman Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 
>Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 05:49 PM
>Subject: Strange problem with NIC
>
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
>10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
>Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
>second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
>the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
>
>Any idea? TIA
>




Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-26 Thread Roman Medina

mta-mad:~# mii-tool 
eth0: negotiated 100baseT4 flow-control, link ok

 Saludos,
 --Roman

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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:31:07 +0800, you wrote:

>Run mii-tool and see what speed your card is using first.
>
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>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 05:49 PM
>Subject: Strange problem with NIC
>
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
>10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
>Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
>second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
>the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
>
>Any idea? TIA
>


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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-26 Thread Hans Peter Wiedau
Hello,

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:49:35AM +0100, Roman Medina wrote:

> I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
> 10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
> Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
> second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
> the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
> 
> Any idea? TIA

we had this problem with wrong half-duplex/full-duplex settings. They
appeared when both of switch and nic were configured for
autonegotiation. Disabling autonegotiation for the switch port solved
the problem.

HTH,

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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-26 Thread Hans Peter Wiedau
Hello,

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:49:35AM +0100, Roman Medina wrote:

> I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
> 10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
> Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
> second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
> the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
> 
> Any idea? TIA

we had this problem with wrong half-duplex/full-duplex settings. They
appeared when both of switch and nic were configured for
autonegotiation. Disabling autonegotiation for the switch port solved
the problem.

HTH,

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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-26 Thread Fred Clausen
Hi Roman,

Try and see if there are any newer drivers available, maybe there is a
bug in the card with your particular RealTek card. Check on RealTek's
site perhaps.

It might be worth looking at dmesg to see if there are any error
messages related to the card. You might try and swap the card for
another just to be sure it is the card itself.

Although I usually use Intel cards I have never had problems with
RealTek myself either.

Hope that helps,

Fred.

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 09:49, Roman Medina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
> 10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
> Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
> second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
> the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
> 
> Any idea? TIA
> 
>  Saludos,
>  --Roman
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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-26 Thread Fred Clausen
Hi Roman,

Try and see if there are any newer drivers available, maybe there is a
bug in the card with your particular RealTek card. Check on RealTek's
site perhaps.

It might be worth looking at dmesg to see if there are any error
messages related to the card. You might try and swap the card for
another just to be sure it is the card itself.

Although I usually use Intel cards I have never had problems with
RealTek myself either.

Hope that helps,

Fred.

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 09:49, Roman Medina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
> 10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
> Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
> second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
> the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
> 
> Any idea? TIA
> 
>  Saludos,
>  --Roman
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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-26 Thread Jason Lim
We've run Realtek cards on some servers, and they've worked flawlessly for
us. We never pushed them to the absolute max, but at one point they were
pushing about 50Mbps (far for the theoretical 100Mbps... but you'll never
get that anyway).

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> is it Realtech card? if so go get 3com/Intel
>
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Roman Medina wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
> > 10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
> > Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
> > second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
> > the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
> >
> > Any idea? TIA
> >
> >  Saludos,
> >  --Roman
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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-26 Thread mattias
is it Realtech card? if so go get 3com/Intel

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Roman Medina wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
> 10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
> Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
> second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
> the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
> 
> Any idea? TIA
> 
>  Saludos,
>  --Roman
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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-26 Thread Jason Lim
We've run Realtek cards on some servers, and they've worked flawlessly for
us. We never pushed them to the absolute max, but at one point they were
pushing about 50Mbps (far for the theoretical 100Mbps... but you'll never
get that anyway).

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> is it Realtech card? if so go get 3com/Intel
>
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Roman Medina wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
> > 10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
> > Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
> > second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
> > the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
> >
> > Any idea? TIA
> >
> >  Saludos,
> >  --Roman
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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-25 Thread mattias
is it Realtech card? if so go get 3com/Intel

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Roman Medina wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
> 10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
> Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
> second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
> the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.
> 
> Any idea? TIA
> 
>  Saludos,
>  --Roman
> 
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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-25 Thread Jason Lim
Run mii-tool and see what speed your card is using first.

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Hi,

I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.

Any idea? TIA

 Saludos,
 --Roman

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Re: Strange problem with NIC

2003-11-25 Thread Jason Lim
Run mii-tool and see what speed your card is using first.

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Hi,

I'm experimenting the following problem: one Debian machine with 1
10/100 Ethernet NIC where its upstream speed is reasonable (2 or 3
Mbytes per second) but its downstream speed is awful (35 kbytes per
second ). All experiments are made in a LAN, so I cannot explain
the 35 kbytes/s extremely low speed.

Any idea? TIA

 Saludos,
 --Roman

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Re: Strange problem

2002-02-01 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:11:52AM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > What do you mean that it is impossible to be the same? (Are you saying
> > that proc was also mounted at / ?)
> 
> Hmm. I didn't say that right. Mount showed /proc mounted. 'df' *also*
> showed /proc mounted, with the same size/used/free as /.

that sounds like what happens when the machine is booted in 'emergency'
mode, with only / mounted RO.

try:

fsck / (if necessary)
mount -n -o rw,remount /
fsck other partitions (if necessary)
mount -a

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Re: Strange problem

2002-02-01 Thread Craig Sanders

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:11:52AM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > What do you mean that it is impossible to be the same? (Are you saying
> > that proc was also mounted at / ?)
> 
> Hmm. I didn't say that right. Mount showed /proc mounted. 'df' *also*
> showed /proc mounted, with the same size/used/free as /.

that sounds like what happens when the machine is booted in 'emergency'
mode, with only / mounted RO.

try:

fsck / (if necessary)
mount -n -o rw,remount /
fsck other partitions (if necessary)
mount -a

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Re: Strange problem

2002-02-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:11, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > What do you mean that it is impossible to be the same? (Are you saying
> > that proc was also mounted at / ?)
>
> Hmm. I didn't say that right. Mount showed /proc mounted. 'df' *also*
> showed /proc mounted, with the same size/used/free as /.

To see what is mounted do "cat /proc/mounts".  I guess from your description 
that /proc is not mounted but /etc/mtab suggests that it is.

"ls -l /proc" should show what's happening.

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Re: Strange problem

2002-02-01 Thread Russell Coker

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:11, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > What do you mean that it is impossible to be the same? (Are you saying
> > that proc was also mounted at / ?)
>
> Hmm. I didn't say that right. Mount showed /proc mounted. 'df' *also*
> showed /proc mounted, with the same size/used/free as /.

To see what is mounted do "cat /proc/mounts".  I guess from your description 
that /proc is not mounted but /etc/mtab suggests that it is.

"ls -l /proc" should show what's happening.

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Re: Strange problem

2002-02-01 Thread Jason Lim


> On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 00:59, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> > In my experience, unstable is "unstable".
>
> At times.

We have production boxes running unstable with no problem. Needed to run
unstable because only unstable had some new software, unavailable in
stable. Its a pity stable gets so outdated all the time as compared to
other distros like Redhat and Caldera (stable still on 2.2 kernel), but
thats a topic for a separate discussion.

>
> > > and came up in a very strange state. No users could log in, only
root, and
> > > things like ps, w, and top wouldn't work. I was called, got in via
ssh,
> >
> > Why happens when you runs these commands? (What does "wouldn't
> > work" mean?)
>
> They hung. Nothing happened until I hit ^C
>
> > What do the logs say?
>
> Nothing. syslogd is one of the things that didn't start.
>
> > What do you mean that it is impossible to be the same? (Are you saying
> > that proc was also mounted at / ?)
>
> Hmm. I didn't say that right. Mount showed /proc mounted. 'df' *also*
> showed /proc mounted, with the same size/used/free as /.
>
> >
> > > /proc by hand, started up the utils that didn't start, checked
things out
> > > the best I could, and rebooted again. Same thing. I've gone through
> >
> > What do the kernel messages say?
> Nothing.
>
> > What do the logs say?
> Nothing

Well if syslog isn't started... no wonder. Is it possible to hand-start
syslog after the box has started up, to have it record further error
messages once it the box has booted up?

> > What are these utils that didn't start? (Some network services that
need
> > to be correctly setup in /etc/rc*.d/ ?)
>
> networking, syslog, just about anything that needs /proc to me mounted
> and readable.
>
>
> > Sometimes when I upgrade from stable to unstable, I have had some
packages
> > not reinstalled and some software didn't start that should have.
>
> This machine was running unstable for quite some time, stabley. :)
>

Yeap, for us too. Although we always upgrade a non-critical box first to
see if it breaks anything.




Re: Strange problem

2002-02-01 Thread Tim Sailer
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 00:59, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> In my experience, unstable is "unstable".

At times.
 
> > and came up in a very strange state. No users could log in, only root, and
> > things like ps, w, and top wouldn't work. I was called, got in via ssh,
> 
> Why happens when you runs these commands? (What does "wouldn't
> work" mean?)

They hung. Nothing happened until I hit ^C

> What do the logs say?

Nothing. syslogd is one of the things that didn't start.

> What do you mean that it is impossible to be the same? (Are you saying
> that proc was also mounted at / ?)

Hmm. I didn't say that right. Mount showed /proc mounted. 'df' *also*
showed /proc mounted, with the same size/used/free as /.

> 
> > /proc by hand, started up the utils that didn't start, checked things out
> > the best I could, and rebooted again. Same thing. I've gone through 
> 
> What do the kernel messages say?
Nothing.
 
> What do the logs say?
Nothing
 
> What are these utils that didn't start? (Some network services that need
> to be correctly setup in /etc/rc*.d/ ?)

networking, syslog, just about anything that needs /proc to me mounted
and readable.


> Sometimes when I upgrade from stable to unstable, I have had some packages
> not reinstalled and some software didn't start that should have.

This machine was running unstable for quite some time, stabley. :)

Tim




Re: Strange problem

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Lim



> On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 00:59, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> > In my experience, unstable is "unstable".
>
> At times.

We have production boxes running unstable with no problem. Needed to run
unstable because only unstable had some new software, unavailable in
stable. Its a pity stable gets so outdated all the time as compared to
other distros like Redhat and Caldera (stable still on 2.2 kernel), but
thats a topic for a separate discussion.

>
> > > and came up in a very strange state. No users could log in, only
root, and
> > > things like ps, w, and top wouldn't work. I was called, got in via
ssh,
> >
> > Why happens when you runs these commands? (What does "wouldn't
> > work" mean?)
>
> They hung. Nothing happened until I hit ^C
>
> > What do the logs say?
>
> Nothing. syslogd is one of the things that didn't start.
>
> > What do you mean that it is impossible to be the same? (Are you saying
> > that proc was also mounted at / ?)
>
> Hmm. I didn't say that right. Mount showed /proc mounted. 'df' *also*
> showed /proc mounted, with the same size/used/free as /.
>
> >
> > > /proc by hand, started up the utils that didn't start, checked
things out
> > > the best I could, and rebooted again. Same thing. I've gone through
> >
> > What do the kernel messages say?
> Nothing.
>
> > What do the logs say?
> Nothing

Well if syslog isn't started... no wonder. Is it possible to hand-start
syslog after the box has started up, to have it record further error
messages once it the box has booted up?

> > What are these utils that didn't start? (Some network services that
need
> > to be correctly setup in /etc/rc*.d/ ?)
>
> networking, syslog, just about anything that needs /proc to me mounted
> and readable.
>
>
> > Sometimes when I upgrade from stable to unstable, I have had some
packages
> > not reinstalled and some software didn't start that should have.
>
> This machine was running unstable for quite some time, stabley. :)
>

Yeap, for us too. Although we always upgrade a non-critical box first to
see if it breaks anything.


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Re: Strange problem

2002-01-31 Thread Tim Sailer

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 00:59, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> In my experience, unstable is "unstable".

At times.
 
> > and came up in a very strange state. No users could log in, only root, and
> > things like ps, w, and top wouldn't work. I was called, got in via ssh,
> 
> Why happens when you runs these commands? (What does "wouldn't
> work" mean?)

They hung. Nothing happened until I hit ^C

> What do the logs say?

Nothing. syslogd is one of the things that didn't start.

> What do you mean that it is impossible to be the same? (Are you saying
> that proc was also mounted at / ?)

Hmm. I didn't say that right. Mount showed /proc mounted. 'df' *also*
showed /proc mounted, with the same size/used/free as /.

> 
> > /proc by hand, started up the utils that didn't start, checked things out
> > the best I could, and rebooted again. Same thing. I've gone through 
> 
> What do the kernel messages say?
Nothing.
 
> What do the logs say?
Nothing
 
> What are these utils that didn't start? (Some network services that need
> to be correctly setup in /etc/rc*.d/ ?)

networking, syslog, just about anything that needs /proc to me mounted
and readable.


> Sometimes when I upgrade from stable to unstable, I have had some packages
> not reinstalled and some software didn't start that should have.

This machine was running unstable for quite some time, stabley. :)

Tim


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Re: Strange problem

2002-01-31 Thread Jeremy C. Reed

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> OK, folks. I have a stumper here. An associate has a machine that was
> upgraded to unstable in the last few days. The machine was rebooted today,

In my experience, unstable is "unstable".

> and came up in a very strange state. No users could log in, only root, and
> things like ps, w, and top wouldn't work. I was called, got in via ssh,

Why happens when you runs these commands? (What does "wouldn't
work" mean?)

What do the logs say?

> and finally had enough sense to run 'mount'. It looks like /proc and /
> were exactly the same, which is impossible. I unmounted and remounted

What do you mean that it is impossible to be the same? (Are you saying
that proc was also mounted at / ?)

> /proc by hand, started up the utils that didn't start, checked things out
> the best I could, and rebooted again. Same thing. I've gone through 

What do the kernel messages say?

What do the logs say?

What are these utils that didn't start? (Some network services that need
to be correctly setup in /etc/rc*.d/ ?)

> everything I can think of remotely. I can't figure this one out. Has anyone
> else ever seen something like this?

Sometimes when I upgrade from stable to unstable, I have had some packages
not reinstalled and some software didn't start that should have.

  Jeremy C. Reed
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sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'


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