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James P. Kinney III wrote:

>Dow,
>
>This smells like a dying nic to me. Give it a rest to cool down
>thermally and see if it's performance improves. If it does, replace it.
>
>On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 19:18, Dow Hurst wrote:
>  
>
>>eth2: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0x9000, 00:0e:a6:a2:f6:3d, IRQ 11.
>>eth2: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 43e1.
>>eth2: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 43e1.
>>
>>
>>I am seeing a number of dropped packets on this interface.  This is a 
>>remote machine so I have to be careful what I do.  Is there a known way 
>>to find out if the switch this interface is connected to is running 
>>half-duplex?  Can I just find out the driver flags to switch it to half 
>>duplex without too much risk?
>>
>>Initially after boot there wasn't any apparent problems, however, after 
>>a long upload of a lot of data the interface is almost unuseable with 
>>long delays between letters typed while using SSH.
>>
>>Note this later /var/log/messages entry:
>>eth2: Setting half-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 0000.
>>eth2: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 43e1.
>>
>>eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:A6:A2:F6:3D
>>          inet addr:152.13.214.246  Bcast:152.13.215.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
>>          inet6 addr: fe80::20e:a6ff:fea2:f63d/64 Scope:Link
>>          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>          RX packets:2138379 errors:0 dropped:19647 overruns:0 frame:0
>>          TX packets:1343549 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>          RX bytes:2265150739 (2160.2 Mb)  TX bytes:128588389 (122.6 Mb)
>>          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9000
>>
>>Running mtr to track the route and see where the delays are shows that 
>>the last interface, namely this interface, is the big delay with an 
>>order of magnitude higher time than any of the hops between me and the 
>>machine.  I'm still in Acworth, GA while the server is at UNCG 
>>Greensboro NC.
>>
>>Thanks for your help!
>>Dow
>>
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