On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 08:31 +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > > I have wheezy installed on several servers wich have a BCM5708 based NIC, > > > which uses the bnx2 driver and I'm seeing a lot of errors on the network > > > RX > > > packets, this happens wether the machine runs current 3.2 stable kernel or > > > 3.12 unstable one, and with firmware-bnx2 coming from stable and unstable. > > > > How and where are you detecting this? > > Well, the server is a HP ProLiant BL480c G1 and has tigon based cards as > well as the bnx2 ones, if I use the tigon based cards I can download with > wget at more than 100MB/s but if I use the bnx2 cards they don't even bet to > 4 MB/s (I did some tests today without vlan tagging and this still happens > without the vlan overhead). If I look at the interface statistics using > ifconfig I get things like this: > > eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:7d:30:9c:e6 > inet addr:10.10.50.243 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::223:7dff:fe30:9ce6/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:36857 errors:804 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:804 > TX packets:14702 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:53602773 (51.1 MiB) TX bytes:1056006 (1.0 MiB) > Interrupt:17 Memory:fa000000-fa012800 [...]
This is on the bnx2 interface? Please use 'ethtool -S eth3' to get more detailed statistics, and 'ethtool -t eth3' to run a self-test (note this will break the link temporarily), and send the output of these. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein
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