Danny, Once you find the issue, would love to hear what the problem was.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:09 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Danny, > > Not saying that it couldn't be a driver issue, but I've been loading my > rootfs over out network for a long time( read: close to two years, with > various kernels ), and have never even seem one dropped packet, let alone > 5-10%. I've also done some minimal testing of network mounted file systems, > e.g. using dd to write / read from a remote mount. Using both iSCSI, and > NFS, while observing no dropped packets. The interface was also maxed out > from what I could tell ( 11MB/s + ). > > So while I obviously can not give you a concrete answer, I would > definitely look into cabling / internet stability. Especially if the > internet used is wireless . . . > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I have a Beaglebone Black deployed at a customer site that is reporting >> a >> > large number dropped RX packets in ifconfig: >> > >> > Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:a0:30:34:b8:09 >> > inet addr:10.121.6.30 Bcast:10.121.6.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >> > inet6 addr: fe80::caa0:30ff:fe34:b809/64 Scope:Link >> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> > RX packets:10201019 errors:0 dropped:2478997 overruns:0 >> frame:0 >> > TX packets:3304697 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >> > RX bytes:1240516851 (1.1 GiB) TX bytes:250440920 (238.8 MiB) >> > Interrupt:40 >> > >> > Are there any settings that may be adjusted on the Beaglebone that may >> help >> > or is this likely a cabling/network issue at the site or a defective >> NIC? >> > Would it be common for the default network settings to not be able to >> handle >> > incoming packets fast enough (installed BeagleBone Debian Image >> 2014-04-23)? >> > I installed ethtool, but it appears that most options are not supported >> in >> > this Debian image. When I ping anything on the local network, I'm >> getting >> > 5-10% dropped packets. >> >> There's been a few tweaks to the cspw driver since 2014-04-23.. >> >> Grab the latest via: >> >> wget >> http://rcn-ee.com/repos/debian/pool/main/l/linux-upstream/linux-image-3.8.13-bone71_1wheezy_armhf.deb >> >> sudo dpkg -i linux-image-3.8.13-bone71_1wheezy_armhf.deb >> >> #backup: >> sudo mv /boot/uboot/zImage /boot/uboot/zImage_old >> sudo mv /boot/uboot/dtbs/ /boot/uboot/dtbs_old/ >> >> #install kernel/dtbs: >> sudo cp -v /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.13-bone71 /boot/uboot/zImage >> sudo mkdir -p /boot/uboot/dtbs/ >> sudo cp -v /boot/dtbs/3.8.13-bone71/*.dtb /boot/uboot/dtbs/ >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> https://rcn-ee.com/ >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
