Morteargenta Giovanni wrote:

> Seems a congestion problem , maybe the output of ifconfig can help in
> diagnostics.
> If you see a great quantity of collisions , maybe raising the TXqueue helps

Here it is while everything's working.  All I see right now is the 5
overruns.  I'll check when it breaks again...

What exactly is the TxQueueLength for?  What might be the repercussions
of raising it?

[joliver@icarus joliver]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:86:57:00:BC
          inet addr:192.168.1.5  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:5 frame:0
          TX packets:2146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x200
 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:434 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:434 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

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