On Tuesday 16 Mar 2004 9:05 pm, Andy Green wrote:
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> On Tuesday 16 March 2004 20:57, Jim Radford wrote:
> > basic mode: isolate, collision test, 10 Mbit, full duplex
> > basic status: autonegotiation restarted, link ok
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> Hmm... suspicious. I get this
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> basic mode: autonegotiation enabled
> basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
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> Maybe your Ethernet adapter is constantly renegotiating ("restarted") the
> link type for some reason. Cabling? Hub?
I guess it could be. Would mii-tool -w show me if it was renegotiating all
the time?
How do I make sure that autonegotiation is turned on? I thought I could do it
with ethtool. I tried " ethtool -A eth0 autoneg on " but I got the message:
Cannot get device pause settings: Operation not supported
> > Anything else that would cause that many errors - should I be suspicious
> > of that amount of error?
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> My machine has been rebooted thismorning, it has done 1/3rd of the packets
> but you can see a tiny fraction of your errors. Something is wrong there.
>
> RX packets:3404480 errors:73 dropped:38 overruns:0 frame:14
My machine has been up just over 10 days, if that means anything.
--
Jim Radford
"If at first you don't succeed - change the DC"
