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Fester
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 Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2002 3:22 am Post subject: Brand new box, 15% Packet loss |
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| I just assembled a brand new box with gentoo from stage 1. However, from the very beginning, my nic has been getting about 15% packet loss, even to hosts on the LAN. I have a Realtek 8139, a fairly common card, and I'm using the 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 kernel. I've swapped out the wiring, and it's not that. Short of it being a bad card, is there anything else I should try before I go buy a new one? I don't have another PCI NIC on hand to swap in. |
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ghost_o
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| Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2002 3:51 am Post subject: Re: Brand new box, 15% Packet loss |
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| Fester wrote: | | I just assembled a brand new box with gentoo from stage 1. However, from the very beginning, my nic has been getting about 15% packet loss, even to hosts on the LAN. I have a Realtek 8139, a fairly common card, and I'm using the 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 kernel. I've swapped out the wiring, and it's not that. Short of it being a bad card, is there anything else I should try before I go buy a new one? I don't have another PCI NIC on hand to swap in. |
Have you run tcpdump or anything to see if there are any errors that can be debugged on the network - to verify it is a nic and not a switch or hub? |
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Xor
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| Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2002 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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check also your ifconfig
RX packets:65700 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9359 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
if you get errors frames or carriers...
I had this once, and a replacement NIC solved the Problem (the old NIC worked for years...) |
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Fester
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| Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 12:07 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, it ended up just being a bad NIC. Bah, it only cost $6 to begin with. |
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