Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:22:27 -0700 Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2004 01:20 pm, Jacob S. wrote: > > > I've had similar errors with several Rev. 5 LNE100TX cards that > > looked like you describe. I tried kernels 2.2.15, 2.2.19, 2.4.18 as > > well as the latest drivers from www.scyld.com and ifconfig always > > showed the same thing. The cards and network connection have always > > worked fine for me, it just looks bad when you run ifconfig. > > Define "fine"... what was your max throughput on those cards? I > highly doubt those aren't real errors. Ethernet's just pretty > forgiving. Can you really push full data rate with those kinds of > errors showing up? I highly doubt it. Fine = No noticeable difference in speed vs. other computers and network cards that aren't exhibiting the problem. I don't have any logs I can show from it right now, but in my case it looked like data was being shown in the wrong columns, not that anything was malfunctioning. The OP has already responded and their situation was obviously not the same as what I described. Nonetheless, my problem was not specific to just one of my network cards, but all of the LNE100TX Rev. 5 Linksys cards I had at that time. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Slight disorientation after prolonged system uptime is normal for new Linux users. Please do not adjust your browser. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 22:04:24 +0100, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote > Looks like bad cabling or a bogged down net to me, notice that the > collision-count is pretty high out too. > My guess is you have a bad nic or bad cabling/bogged net... > Thanks for the input everyone!! Replaced the hub with another and bingo. Had to wait until everyone went home, but its worth it to find out its the network and not my Debian System. Cool! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building
On Monday 05 January 2004 12:26 pm, mike wrote: > Hi, > > When I run ifconfig eth0, my "errors" section keeps growing. > Here's an example output from # ifconfig eth0 > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1334682 *errors:65273 *dropped:0 overruns:1 > frame:78897 > TX packets:640316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:23 > collisions:1729 > RX bytes:678692267 (647.2 MiB) TX bytes:144369628 (137.6 MiB) You probably have a bad cable or a crappy switch or a cable run that's beyond the ethernet spec or ... [insert your favorite physical layer problem here]. You have carrier errors there (23 of them) that show the NIC couldn't even connect to the Ethernet bus 23 times, and the other errors are frame errors, showing that low level layer frames are getting corrupted. Collisions shouldn't be there if you're plugged into a 100Mb/s full-duplex switch. If you're on a slower network or non-full duplex network make sure your card is using/autonegotiating the correct settings. mii-tool. -- Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building
On Monday 05 January 2004 01:20 pm, Jacob S. wrote: > I've had similar errors with several Rev. 5 LNE100TX cards that looked > like you describe. I tried kernels 2.2.15, 2.2.19, 2.4.18 as well as > the latest drivers from www.scyld.com and ifconfig always showed the > same thing. The cards and network connection have always worked fine for > me, it just looks bad when you run ifconfig. Define "fine"... what was your max throughput on those cards? I highly doubt those aren't real errors. Ethernet's just pretty forgiving. Can you really push full data rate with those kinds of errors showing up? I highly doubt it. -- Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:26, mike wrote: > Hi, > > When I run ifconfig eth0, my "errors" section keeps growing. > Here's an example output from # ifconfig eth0 > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1334682 *errors:65273 *dropped:0 overruns:1 > frame:78897 > TX packets:640316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:23 > collisions:1729 > RX bytes:678692267 (647.2 MiB) TX bytes:144369628 (137.6 MiB) > > I've highlighted the concerned area with * > The error number keeps growing if I run ifconfig eth0 over and over. > Any ideas on how to trouble shoot this? > I have the same nic in as eth1 and it doesn't show any errors. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > Debian Project (http://www.debian.org) > Looks like bad cabling or a bogged down net to me, notice that the collision-count is pretty high out too. My guess is you have a bad nic or bad cabling/bogged net... Sturla -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifconfig eth0 shows errors building
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:26:26 -0800 "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > When I run ifconfig eth0, my "errors" section keeps growing. > Here's an example output from # ifconfig eth0 > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1334682 *errors:65273 *dropped:0 > overruns:1 > frame:78897 > TX packets:640316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:23 > collisions:1729 > RX bytes:678692267 (647.2 MiB) TX bytes:144369628 (137.6 > MiB) > > I've highlighted the concerned area with * > The error number keeps growing if I run ifconfig eth0 over and over. > Any ideas on how to trouble shoot this? > I have the same nic in as eth1 and it doesn't show any errors. Is this a Linksys LNE100TX network card, by chance? I've had similar errors with several Rev. 5 LNE100TX cards that looked like you describe. I tried kernels 2.2.15, 2.2.19, 2.4.18 as well as the latest drivers from www.scyld.com and ifconfig always showed the same thing. The cards and network connection have always worked fine for me, it just looks bad when you run ifconfig. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
