vr0: rx packet lost

[Vince Hoffman]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Andrea Venturoli wrote:

> Hello.
> I've just installed 6.0/AMD64 on an Asus A8V, which features a vr interface.
>
> I'm getting tons of "vr0: rx packet lost" kernel messages as soon as I start 
> transfering some files on my LAN. Needless to say, network performance is 
> VERY poor (ranging from 100KB/s to 1MB/s *).

This may sound silly but if performance is that bad have you checked if 
you have a Duplex mismatch ? (one side set to full manually and the other 
to auto commonly results in duplex mismatches in my experience. 
(see http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/network/autosense.html or use google for 
more info)


Vince
>
> I've looked in the archives and in bug reports and I've seen someone has 
> reported this too, but found no solutions.
> Someone says that the same board connected to a different switch behaves 
> correctly.
> I can only add that an identical system running 5.4/i386 does not show this 
> problem.
>
> So, getting to the questions:
> _ is this a known problem?
> _ was it introduced in 6.0? (And possibly would it be fixed in 6.1?)
> _ is it an AMD64 only issue? If so, would I be better of starting from 
> scratch with i386?
> _ any insight on which switches should work, which shouldn't and why?
> _ any other info is welcome.
>
>
> *) Tests indicate ~1MB/s with a generic kernel and 100-150kB/s with my custom 
> one, which introduces ipfw). I haven't tested thoroughly, however, so don't 
> take this figures seriously.
>
>
> bye & Thanks
> 	av.
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