Re: asix supported, or not? 2.4 problems
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.tulip.general |
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Brett Dikeman wrote: > At 3:27 PM -0400 7/29/02, Donald Becker wrote: > > > > cards(the V3 I believe), I get tons and tons of errors under even > >> slight(100kB/sec) load, eventually the interface just completely > >> stops responding to the world(anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour or > >> two)... .. > Hmm...its just a "dumb" 10/100 netgear switch... That rules out the common forced-full-duplex at the switch. > I tried monitoring the interface's link status with the --watch > option to miidiag, nothing ever changed, so its not flip-flopping. That rules out repeated autonegotiations. > I just tried forcing the card to advertise half-duplex 10BaseT...same > result, lots of dropped packets and frame errors. And that hints (but doesn't confirm) that it's not a cable problem. Most cables will work fine at 10baseT, but you need a Cat 5 cable to work at 100baseTx. > If it helps, dropped count:frame error is about a 5:1 ~ 6:1 ratio. That's pretty bad. > Oh...and the errors are always on the rx side, tx side is always > clean. > I have a hub I can swap into place of the switch, might give that a try. A quick and useful thing to try. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ tulip mailing list, [email protected] To change to digest mode or unsubscribe visit http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/tulip