Specs for Tulip3

2005-12-14 Thread Aritz Bastida
with ethtool are quite self-explained, I would like to understand in depth the meaning of each variable. I guess those are described in the NIC Specs, but I wasnt able to find them in the Web (even in the Broadcom web page). How can I find the specs for the Tulip3 NIC? Thank you Regards Aritz

Re: Specs for Tulip3

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Chan
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 17:56 +0100, Aritz Bastida wrote: How can I find the specs for the Tulip3 NIC? Most of the statistics counters follow the MIB definitions in the RFCs. There are a few that are non-standard but should be self-explanatory. Send me an email if you need more information

Re: Specs for Tulip3

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Chan
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 19:38 +0100, Aritz Bastida wrote: Thank you for your email. But could you tell me what RFC specifically? Is it RFC1284? The counters I am looking for are: These are custom counters not from any RFCs. dma_writeq_full DMA write queue full - meaning host is not

Re: Specs for Tulip3

2005-12-14 Thread Aritz Bastida
Hello again, Sorry Michael, but I am a kind of newbie in this subject and couldnt understand everything you said clearly. I'm working on my final year project (I think it's said like that, I mean the project you do when you finish your degree :P). The purpose of my project is to capture and

Re: Specs for Tulip3

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Chan
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 00:07 +0100, Aritz Bastida wrote: rx_threshold_hit Rx max coalescing frames threshold hit. Well, I didn't understand what is this threshold for This counter counts the number of times rx packets have reached the max rx coalesced frames setting before an