Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-29 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 28.10.2012 18:30, schrieb Bob Puff: One, with a Cisco router - it auto-negotiated every time to half duplex, even though it really -was- full. Use mii-tool to find out. That's the typical effect when one side is configured to full duplex and the other side to auto negotiate. The side with

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-29 Thread Jerry Geis
ck your duplex. I have had two recent problems with duplex: One, with a Cisco router - it auto-negotiated every time to half duplex, even though it really -was- full. Use mii-tool to find out. Two, with a RR modem - the speed was forced to 10mb half duplex instead of 100mb full duplex.

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-29 Thread Giles Coochey
On 29/10/2012 13:26, Jerry Geis wrote: ck your duplex. I have had two recent problems with duplex: One, with a Cisco router - it auto-negotiated every time to half duplex, even though it really -was- full. Use mii-tool to find out. Just a note, auto-negotiation of 10/100 links will not work

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-28 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, fred smith wrote: To: CentOS ML centos@centos.org From: fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Subject: Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 04:40:42PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: I have a CentOS 5.8 box that is dropping packets (just from ping

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-28 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there any chances you can send in the stats of the interface? Just show if the driver says why it's being dropped. Banyan, RX packets:2944544 errors:45 dropped:21 overruns:4 dmesg shows no errors tail /var/log/messages shows no errors. Thanks, Jerry

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-28 Thread Bob Puff
Check your duplex. I have had two recent problems with duplex: One, with a Cisco router - it auto-negotiated every time to half duplex, even though it really -was- full. Use mii-tool to find out. Two, with a RR modem - the speed was forced to 10mb half duplex instead of 100mb full duplex. All

[CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-27 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a CentOS 5.8 box that is dropping packets (just from ping). The network is 8139 RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ Rev 10 Adding the parameters pci=noacpi acpi=off has helped but it still happens. Is there something else that helps the network not drop packets? Thanks, jerry

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-27 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 04:40:42PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: I have a CentOS 5.8 box that is dropping packets (just from ping). The network is 8139 RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ Rev 10 Adding the parameters pci=noacpi acpi=off has helped but it still happens. Is there something else that helps

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-27 Thread Jerry Geis
This probably won't be helpful, but whenever someone inquires about trouble with a Realtek network chipset someone ALWAYS responds that Realtek network hardware is junk and that you should replace it with something good, such as an intel e100 or e1000 or some such. Me, I've never had

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/27/12 4:59 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: This probably won't be helpful, but whenever someone inquires about trouble with a Realtek network chipset someone ALWAYS responds that Realtek network hardware is junk and that you should replace it with something good, such as an intel e100 or e1000 or

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-27 Thread Banyan He
Is there any chances you can send in the stats of the interface? Just show if the driver says why it's being dropped. Banyan He Blog: http://www.rootong.com Email: ban...@rootong.com On 2012-10-28 4:40 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: I have a CentOS 5.8 box that is dropping packets (just

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-27 Thread me
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Jerry Geis wrote: I have a CentOS 5.8 box that is dropping packets (just from ping). The network is 8139 RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ Rev 10 Adding the parameters pci=noacpi acpi=off has helped but it still happens. Is there something else that helps the network not drop