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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:47:02 +0800 (SGT)
From:      Archimedes Gaviola <a_gaviola@yahoo.com.ph>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject:   Re: [Regarding Packet Error]
Message-ID:  <948463.97751.qm@web76608.mail.sg1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200807101546.m6AFkiAw036967@lava.sentex.ca>

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

> From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
> Subject: Re: [Regarding Packet Error]
> To: a_gaviola@yahoo.com.ph, freebsd-net@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,
>=20
> There have been a number of bug fixes to the intel nics
> since=20
> 6.2R.  Can you at least update to 6.3R or RELENG_6 ? =20

[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=20
> stats for your nics
>=20
> sysctl dev.em.0.stats=3D1
>=20
> it will dump them to syslog

[Archimedes] Here's the log.

Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Excessive collisions =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Sequence errors =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Defer count =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Missed Packets =3D 294797
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Receive No Buffers =3D 1377122
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Receive Length Errors =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Receive errors =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Crc errors =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Alignment errors =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Carrier extension errors =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: RX overruns =3D 24092
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: watchdog timeouts =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: XON Rcvd =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: XON Xmtd =3D 26434
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: XOFF Rcvd =3D 0
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: XOFF Xmtd =3D 319731
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Good Packets Rcvd =3D 10486744
Jul 11 07:01:18 freebsd62 kernel: em0: Good Packets Xmtd =3D 7311565

>=20
> Does the switchport your are connected to show any errors ?
>=20
[Archimedes] No, it doesn't show any errors on my Gigabit LinkSys switch.

Thanks,
Archimedes
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