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- <li><em>date</em>: Thu Aug 19 08:24:33 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)</li>
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I've got one switch that seems to hate SMB traffic. Everything else
transfers fine.
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 00:50, Dow Hurst wrote:
> A "sync;init6" fixes the problem immediately. With hardly any traffic
> for a couple of days after the long transfer that caused the problem, it
> still was painfully erratic and slow. The reboot fixed the problem and
> the interface is fast again.
> Dow
>
>
> 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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