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On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Scott Lampert wrote:
> I have three completely different systems here with 2.1.106 and
> 2.1.107 kernels running on them and they are all showing massive amounts of
> transmit errors on the ethernet interface. They are all running Kingston
> DECchip 21041 ethernet cards. Strangely enough it doesn't seem to affect
> their ability to communicate. In any event, I've tried recompiling both
> kernel versions to use the Tulip driver (I've been using the generic 21041
> driver) and this doesn't seem to make a difference so I'm assuming it isn't
> driver related. Is anyone else experiencing this or is it just me? I didn't
> even notice until today. Here's a sample from the machine I'm writing this on:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:15:1F:AC
> inet addr:205.138.63.5 Bcast:205.138.63.7 Mask:255.255.255.248
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:15940 dropped:240 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000
>
> I've only had an uptime of 10 minutes and already I'm showing 15940
> errors and 240 drops. Yuck. And this is with almost no actual network
> activity. Any pointers on where to look would be appreciated. Thanks,
> -Scott Hth, JimL
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