Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-07-26 Thread Garrett Wollman
< I don't think you ran out of mbufs (you would have noticed) so that > rules out case #1. Checking cases #2 and #3 requires adding a little > instrumentation to the driver. If the XL_RXSTAT_UP_ERROR bit is being > detected in xl_rxeof(), you can print out the status word and see > if any of the fo

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-07-21 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> > > I would say the physical wire is probably bad. Seeing unidirectional > > errors > > > in this case wouldn't be uncommon; one of the pair of the receive wires > > may > > > have issues. Have you swapped the cable? Most of the time you won't see > > > framing errors related to duplex mismatc

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-07-20 Thread Bill Paul
> > I would say the physical wire is probably bad. Seeing unidirectional > errors > > in this case wouldn't be uncommon; one of the pair of the receive wires > may > > have issues. Have you swapped the cable? Most of the time you won't see > > framing errors related to duplex mismatching. > >

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-07-20 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> >> Hello: > >> > >> Judging from your output I would say two things: > >> > >> 1) You have a bad cable. CRC and framing errors are usually a result of > > bad > >> media. > >> 2) You should set the port to auto/auto, not 100/Full hard set, unless you > >> have specifically set that up in rc.conf

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-27 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> > Ok.. It is set hard to 100BT/FD on both ends. I don't know if you saw this, > > but since resetting the stats a few hours ago, it shows no errors at all on > > their end, but were still getting errors on our end... The CRC and frame > > errors could have been from a media mismatch when things w

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-27 Thread Michael K. Smith
On 6/27/03 12:29 PM, "Shawn Ramsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello: >> >> Judging from your output I would say two things: >> >> 1) You have a bad cable. CRC and framing errors are usually a result of > bad >> media. >> 2) You should set the port to auto/auto, not 100/Full hard set, unless

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-27 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> Hello: > > Judging from your output I would say two things: > > 1) You have a bad cable. CRC and framing errors are usually a result of bad > media. > 2) You should set the port to auto/auto, not 100/Full hard set, unless you > have specifically set that up in rc.conf. If one side is hard set a

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-27 Thread Michael K. Smith
Hello: Judging from your output I would say two things: 1) You have a bad cable. CRC and framing errors are usually a result of bad media. 2) You should set the port to auto/auto, not 100/Full hard set, unless you have specifically set that up in rc.conf. If one side is hard set and the other i

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-27 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> Improperly negotiating 100-BT/FD and generating lots of late collisions, > for one. Is the switch managed? What does it's syslog output or the > local CLI say about the port(s) in question? In Cisco parlance, you may > want to clear the interface counters and observe 'sh int...' output while >

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-25 Thread Bill Vermillion
Mike Hoskins, the prominent pundit, on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 17:13 while half mumbling, half-witicized: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > > I don't know offhand, it connects to another company, as its > > our internet connection. We will contact them and see if they > > can tell us w

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
> (if any, I believe its a Cisco). The card is forced to 100BT/FD on our end, > and im sure it is on the other end, though I will have them double check If your card is forced to FD and the other end is not, this is "very bad" (and according to the standard should fall back into SD). Olivier

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-25 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> Hmm. Definately try the NIC swap then, couldn't hurt. What's your `uname > -a`? This is something recent, right? 4.7-RELEASE > > Thats one idea I was planning on doing, just to be sure its not a NIC issue. > > I am also going to try replacing the motherboard with one with a 64-bit bus, > > a

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-25 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > I don't know offhand, it connects to another company, as its our internet > connection. We will contact them and see if they can tell us what the stats > (if any, I believe its a Cisco). The card is forced to 100BT/FD on our end, > and im sure it is on the

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-25 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> Improperly negotiating 100-BT/FD and generating lots of late collisions, > for one. Is the switch managed? What does it's syslog output or the > local CLI say about the port(s) in question? In Cisco parlance, you may I don't know offhand, it connects to another company, as its our internet co

Re: Lots of input errors...

2003-06-25 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > netstat -I xl0 -w 1 >input (xl0) output > packets errs bytespackets errs bytes colls > 6918228525822 5631 02770466 0 > 7317219262852 6041 02696855

Lots of input errors...

2003-06-25 Thread Shawn Ramsey
> netstat -I xl0 -w 1 input (xl0) output packets errs bytespackets errs bytes colls 6918228525822 5631 02770466 0 7317219262852 6041 02696855 0 783926 10090955 6426 0