[Regarding Packet Error]

[Archimedes Gaviola]

--- On Thu, 7/10/08, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:

> From: Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>
> Subject: Re: [Regarding Packet Error]
> To: a_gaviola at yahoo.com.ph, freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Date: Thursday, 10 July, 2008, 11:46 PM
> At 10:27 AM 7/10/2008, Archimedes Gaviola wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm running a FreeBSD-6.2 RELEASE system on an
> Intel Gigabit copper NIC
> >but when it receive packets,
> 
> There have been a number of bug fixes to the intel nics
> since 
> 6.2R.  Can you at least update to 6.3R or RELENG_6 ?  

[Archimedes] Yes, I'll try newer versions of FreeBSD with 6.3 RELEASE and 7.0 RELEASE if errors will still occur.

Also,
> check the 
> stats for your nics
> 
> sysctl dev.em.0.stats=1
> 
> it will dump them to syslog

[Archimedes] Here's the log.

Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Excessive collisions = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Sequence errors = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Defer count = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Missed Packets = 294797
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Receive No Buffers = 1377122
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Receive Length Errors = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Receive errors = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Crc errors = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Alignment errors = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Carrier extension errors = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: RX overruns = 24092
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: watchdog timeouts = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: XON Rcvd = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: XON Xmtd = 26434
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: XOFF Rcvd = 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: XOFF Xmtd = 319731
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Good Packets Rcvd = 10486744
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Good Packets Xmtd = 7311565

> 
> Does the switchport your are connected to show any errors ?
> 
[Archimedes] No, it doesn't show any errors on my Gigabit LinkSys switch.

Thanks,
Archimedes



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