From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 20 1:45: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F333137B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 01:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clueless.secondary-mx.co.uk (clueless.redbus.aaisp.net [217.169.20.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0B5243E75 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 01:44:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from zebedee.innovision-group.com([217.169.2.11] HELO:garfield.innovision-group.com) by clueless.secondary-mx.co.uk for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:44:50 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Jonathan Belson To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: ed0 and network collisions Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:45:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208200945.53158.jon@witchspace.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiya I have a machine with a PCI NE2000 card which I use to run cvs. A couple= of weeks ago I had to reinstall (IBM drive failed - enough said), after which I sa= w I was getting a *lot* of packet collisions: Network interface status: Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs = Coll ed0 1500 00:40:95:43:17:ac 433381 0 931587 0 9= 08567 ed0 1500 10.133.14/24 heimdal 432978 - 931553 - = - ed0 1500 fe80:1::240 fe80:1::240:95ff: 0 - 0 - = - lp0* 1500 0 0 0 0 = 0 sl0* 552 0 0 0 0 = 0 faith 1500 0 0 0 0 = 0 lo0 16384 0 0 0 0 = 0 lo0 16384 localhost ::1 0 - 0 - = - lo0 16384 fe80:5::1 fe80:5::1 0 - 0 - = - lo0 16384 your-net localhost 0 - 0 - = - ppp0* 1500 0 0 0 0 = 0 I remembered moving the card to another slot when I was changing the hard= drive, but moving it back made no difference. Here's the line from my dmesg: ed0: port 0x7f80-0x7f9f irq 11 at dev= ice 10. 0 on pci0 ed0: address 00:40:95:43:17:ac, type NE2000 (16 bit)=20 Here's the line from my config file: # ISA Ethernet NICs. device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 11 iomem 0xd8000 Since it's a PCI card, I'm assuming it ignores the bits after 'ed0'? ifconfig output: ed0: flags=3D8843 mtu 1500 inet 10.133.14.116 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.133.14.255 ether 00:40:95:43:17:ac I wondered if it's a full/half duplex problem (it's plugged into a switch= ); I checked the man page but the device doesn't seem to support the media or mediaopt= options. Any clues on trying to debug the problem? --Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message