Random Network Droping, advice needed

[Jim Radford]

On Tuesday 16 Mar 2004 8:46 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Jim Radford wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 Mar 2004 7:56 pm, Andy Green wrote:
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> > > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 19:35, Jim Radford wrote:
> > > > How can I gather evidence that it's my machine that's the problem?
> > >
> > > Look at the error stats for the adapter in ifconfig.
> >
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr ??:??:??:??:??:??
> >         inet addr:???.???.???.???  Bcast:???.???.???.??? 
> > Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >         RX packets:10127698 errors:186786 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > frame:279486 TX packets:7781618 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >         RX bytes:3488952219 (3327.3 Mb)  TX bytes:565796174 (539.5 Mb)
> >         Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000
> >
> > So, I see errors there - what does that tell me? Sorry for not
> > understanding.
>
> that many frame errors is probably and indication that the other side of
> the connection is half duplex while this side is full.
>
> you can verify this with mii-tool...

Looks okay to me, I think.

[root at mailgate root]# mii-tool -v
eth0: 10 Mbit, full duplex, link ok
  product info: vendor 01:e1:c1, model 56 rev 7
  basic mode:   isolate, collision test, 10 Mbit, full duplex
  basic status: autonegotiation restarted, link ok
  capabilities:
  advertising:  100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD flow-control
  link partner: 100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD flow-control

Anything else that would cause that many errors - should I be suspicious of 
that amount of error?

-- 
Jim Radford
   "If at first you don't succeed - change the DC"