Lots of collisions on em0

[John-Mark Gurney]

Jeffrey Katcher wrote this message on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:22 -0700:
> My network performance is a little spotty under -current lately so I looked at
> netstat -i:
> 
> netstat -i
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
> em0       0 <Link#1>      00:0d:60:2d:b0:c2        0  5722        0     0
> 5803493
> em0       0 192.168.168   clio                  6445     -     5680     -     -
> lo0*      0 <Link#2>                               0     0        0     0     0
> lo0*      0 your-net      localhost                0     -        0     -     -
> 
> With only a short uptime, I'm seeing insane numbers of collisions on em0, which
> is connected via a known-good cable to a known-good switch which shows no
> collisions on any of its ports.  Is there something going on with the em
> driver?

I've been seeing this too, but I believe this is a software problem.. if
you look at the second em0 line, you'll see that the Ierrs isn't much more
than the Opkts....

I'll be investigating this shortly...

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