Re: Installation problem with Peabird card

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, vincent wrote:

> I did a little more testing.
> Ping from the laptop sometimes says Destination host unreachable, or 
> sometimes does work, but at a very low success rate (90% packets lost):
> 
> _laptop_# ping 192.168.1.1   
> PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) from 192.168.1.2 : 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=38 ttl=255 time=213 usec
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=51 ttl=255 time=213 usec
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=58 ttl=255 time=198 usec
> --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
> 65 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 95% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.198/0.208/0.213/0.007 ms
> 
> In the meanwhile, ping from the desktop to the laptop gives 
> ``duplicate'' packets, and the success rate is also very low (87% loss)

This indicates that the hardware or driver is resetting the ring
pointer.

You should be getting driver messages when this happens.  What are they
reporting?

> Here is the /proc/net/dev and the result of  rlt8139-diag -m
> 
> _laptop_# cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
>  face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed 
> multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>     lo:   36732     330    0    0    0     0          0         0    
> 36732     330    0    0    0     0       0          0
>   eth0:   12801     120  134    0    0     0          0         0    
> 63222     648    0    0    4     0       0          0

Errors on both Rx and Tx.


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