HI gang, I have a network interface on my firewall that is throwing receive errors at me. They are in the overrun and frame columns of the ifconfig printout for that interface. I tried to restart the interface and reload the kernel module to no avail. I also power cycled the Linksys switch and cabled to a different switch port. A different cable didn't help, either. I'd rather not reboot the machine with 135 days of uptime. I noticed that on a 100 Mbit ethernet segment, I'm getting a failure rate on approx. 25% of the packets. Reducing the MTU from 1500 to 768 helps the transfer rate but doesn't solve the problem. This is the only machine on my home network that shows any errors. Any thoughts? Is it a bad NIC or something I've missed? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org
Andy> I have a network interface on my firewall that is throwing Andy> receive errors at me. They are in the overrun and frame columns Andy> of the ifconfig printout for that interface. I tried to restart Andy> the interface and reload the kernel module to no avail. I also Andy> power cycled the Linksys switch and cabled to a different switch Andy> port. A different cable didn't help, either. I'd rather not Andy> reboot the machine with 135 days of uptime. You've done alot of checks, but you may just have to do a reboot. Andy> I noticed that on a 100 Mbit ethernet segment, I'm getting a Andy> failure rate on approx. 25% of the packets. Reducing the MTU Andy> from 1500 to 768 helps the transfer rate but doesn't solve the Andy> problem. How about if you drop it down to 10mb/s instead and see how it works? It's not like you're going to get anything like that speed through a cable modem/DSL link anyway. This might slow down the traffic enough for the card to be able to deal with it better. Andy> This is the only machine on my home network that shows any Andy> errors.
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