SUMMARY: ierrors on hme0

From: SEAN BURKE (ITNSB@mailer.rgu.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 22 1999 - 03:29:41 CDT


Sorry, for the delay in summarizing, but I had to wait to reboot the
machine after the fix was applied to check it had worked.

Thanks to Adrian Cole, Sandeep Patni and Steve Turgeon, who all suggested
applying patch # 105795-05, which has solved my problem.

Thanks to all others who responded with checking duplex setting
on the switch etc.

Original Qustion:
>
> Managers,
>
> Our E4000 (running 2.6, patched) is showing 30% plus ierrors for
> every ipackets received. See below for the exact figures from
> netstat. the machine has been up for 23 days.
>
> # netstat -k hme0
> hme0:
> ipackets 42116632 ierrors 14498643 opackets 15734962 oerrors 0
> collisions 0
> defer 0 framing 0 crc 0 sqe 0 code_violations 0 len_errors 0
> drop 0 buff 0 oflo 0 uflo 0 missed 0 tx_late_collisions 0
> retry_error 0 first_collisions 0 nocarrier 4 inits 77 nocanput 0
> allocbfail 0 runt 0 jabber 0 babble 0 tmd_error 0 tx_late_error 0
> rx_late_error 0 slv_parity_error 0 tx_parity_error 0 rx_parity_error 0
> slv_error_ack 0 tx_error_ack 0 rx_error_ack 0 tx_tag_error 0
> rx_tag_error 0 eop_error 0 no_tmds 0 no_tbufs 0 no_rbufs 0
> rx_late_collisions 0 rbytes 2178996074 obytes 2506494558
> multircv 31491 multixmt
> 3
> brdcstrcv 16630896 brdcstxmt 2856 norcvbuf 0 noxmtbuf 13
>
> The card is running 100Mbs on Full-duplex. I have changed the
> cable, but the error rate is the same. The fact that there is no
> oerrors makes me wonder if the card is ok.
>
> Has anyone seen this sort of problem before and managed to
> pinpoint a cause.
>
> Running snoop shows a lot of Broadcast packets, but a 1000E I
> have (also running 2.6) shows only 11 ipacket errors for a similiar
> no. of ipackets and shows a similiar no. of broadcasts.
>
> TIA..Sean.
 



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