Re: Auto-neg or not?

Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209261203250.29661-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 [email protected] wrote:

> Our engineering team doesn't believe auto negotation should be set. Even 
> after we gave them tests that showed that by NOT setting auto negotiation 
> we went from over 10,000 KB/s to < 1,000 KB/s.

You mean - by forcing some media. Autonegotiation should be on by default.
Duplex mismatch is a sure way to cripple the connection.

> Sep 15 20:00:15 qwburbank01 kernel: NET: 2848 messages suppressed. 
> Sep 15 20:00:41 qwburbank01 kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, 
> status 8401. 

No idea about the first one; possibly just a way to throttle down number 
of messages by bundling them.

The second one was already discussed many times on this list. Search the 
archives at http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex/
You'll have to decide whether the network traffic is most important for 
you and increase module parameter "max_interrupt_work" accordingly.

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Bogdan Costescu

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