On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:16:52PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote > > A couple of general comments... > > > > You don't have standard PC hardware - regular PCs only have IRQs > > 0-15 whereas you're using IRQ 18 & 19. I assume that they are > > supported on your hardware, but if your problem relates to your > > specific platform then those familiar with your platform may be > > better-equipped to comment. > > That's okay on a dual proc system. They're two stock P2-400s - > no other platform, really. > > > The second machine you have seems to have a lot of problems with > > eth0 - 14 framing errors in 333 packets is very high. > > What IS a framing error? Also, the switch will show collisions > when transfering data from this machine (lots and lots), even > though it's basically on its own networkt segment. >
Well [waves hands] it means that it pulled an incomplete or corrupted frame off the wire. Data is framed so that you can tell where it starts and ends, and perform basic sanity checks. A framing error could be a single-bit error in just the wrong place, or it could be two days' worth of packets in the bit bucket. As you have a SMP system, you should ensure that the drivers for your network cards (and, for good measure, your other drivers) are SMP safe - most are, but it's not yet something you can take for granted. > > Have you tried replacing your cable/NIC on that end? > > Cable yes, NIC no - I'll try. > > I've got two more questions: > > 1) How much throughput should I get on > FTP get > FTP put > > on 100 mbit/s? If between 3 and 5.5 MB/sec is ok, then really this > second machine is the only thing broken... > Couldn't say for sure but I'd expect that 100mbit/s would top-out at around 10MB/s - it depends on what else is trvelling on the wire, packet sizes, and whether your PC can keep up (it should be able to). > 2) Any idea why transfers on the first one flood all consoles with > error messages? > That depends... what are the messages? > > Thanks > > Christian John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
