Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:25:37 +0100 From: Robin Gruyters <r.gruyters@yirdis.nl> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bge Ierr rate increase from 5.3R -> 6.1R Message-ID: <20070124152537.gk06yc8d3k8gwgo0@server.yirdis.net> In-Reply-To: <20070124141737.GA7772@icarus.home.lan> References: <20070124105741.cj2htvoxcs4gg8wk@server.yirdis.net> <20070124141737.GA7772@icarus.home.lan>
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Quoting Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>:
>>
>> Is there a fix for it already, or maybe a workaround?
>
> The problem was that the driver code was not properly obtaining
> error statistics from the Broadcom chip, thus errors _were_
> (before the fix) not being calculated/accounted for. Now (after
> the fix) errors are being accounted for correctly.
>
> So the errors you see in your netstat output are probably real/
> ccurate. I'll vote for a duplex-related problem or some naughty
> cabling.
>
Should this not be visible on the switch as well?!?
Here some output from the interface on the server and from the switch (Cisco=
)
[development interface]
bge0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=3D1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
ether 00:12:79:94:ed:12
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
[/development interface]
[switch]
FastEthernet0/3 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
Hardware is Fast Ethernet, address is 000e.84d0.de03 (bia 000e.84d0.de03)
Description: development
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Keepalive set (10 sec)
Full-duplex, 100Mb/s
input flow-control is off, output flow-control is off
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input never, output 00:00:02, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 179000 bits/sec, 28 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 56000 bits/sec, 24 packets/sec
22823978 packets input, 4067576147 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 13138 broadcasts (0 multicast)
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
0 watchdog, 12929 multicast, 0 pause input
0 input packets with dribble condition detected
15673035 packets output, 3975127029 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets
0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
[/switch]
Regards,
Robin
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