I have a system running potato which suddenly started experiencing a large
number of collisions on its ethernet port. It seems to work fine for a
while and suddenly I get collisions and everything grinds to a halt. This
just started and I was wondering if anything had changed in potato which
would cause this, or if I might have developed a hardware problem.
It happens with either 2.0.36 or 2.2.1 kernels:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 48:54:E8:25:C2:85
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:735 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:24
TX packets:661 errors:164 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:165
collisions:2796 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6100
Ifconfig on the other end of the ethernet link (running hamm) shows a much
lower number of collisions (with many more RX frame errors):
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:B0:BA:DC
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:797 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2424
TX packets:830 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:16
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
Any ideas?
Bob
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