looking for ethernet errors, collisions

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Yipe, that is very high compared to what I've seen.  You must
have cabling problems or more likely a chipset incompatability
with the ethernet chip in your switch, and the sis chip.

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael P. Soulier [mailto:msoulier at digitaltorque.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 6:10 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions
> 
> 
> On 17/05/07 Ted Mittelstaedt said:
> 
> > Note that error counters are often bogus because so
> > many cards today filter errors out in hardware, long before
> > the OS driver gets them.
> 
> Well, there are plenty there on my sis0 interface (internal). 
> 
> [msoulier at kanga ~]$ netstat -i
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs
> Coll
> sis0   1500 <Link#1>      00:0a:e6:4a:56:c2 37989565  3980 36808783  5749
> 6492857 
> sis0   1500 192.168.1     kanga             12380344     -  9255757     -
> - 
> sis0   1500 fe80:1::20a:e fe80:1::20a:e6ff:        0     -        7     -
> - 
> fxp0   1500 <Link#2>      00:a0:c9:9a:b0:f2 29693875 12009 27373887     0
> 1846203 
> fxp0   1500 fe80:2::2a0:c fe80:2::2a0:c9ff:        0     -        3     -
> - 
> plip0  1500 <Link#3>                               0     0        0     0
> 0 
> lo0   16384 <Link#4>                          235446     0   235446     0
> 0 
> lo0   16384 your-net      localhost           228064     -   228064     -
> - 
> lo0   16384 localhost.dig ::1                    413     -      413     -
> - 
> lo0   16384 fe80:4::1     fe80:4::1                0     -        0     -
> - 
> tun0   1492 <Link#5>                        29408809     0 27143719     0
> 0 
> tun0   1492 2001:410:90fc 2001:410:90fc:4:2        0     -        1     -
> - 
> tun0   1492 216.106.102.7 hs-216-106-102-70  1535341     -  1578465     -
> - 
> tun0   1492 fe80:5::a1ed: fe80:5::a1ed:c9e8        0     -        2     -
> - 
> 
> Mike
>