On 4/16/07, Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm also not convinced this is an Ethernet hardware problem. > Particularly now with reports from others showing up. Although that > might just be coincidental, it further increases my suspicion that there > may be an issue with a driver or some other low-level software in the > mvpmc distribution that isn't behaving well - perhaps only on H3 hardware.
I've spent a lot of time analyzing this problem over the last year with emulation mode and the problem isn't restricted the the H3's. I think the problem is most likely the NIC itself. There isn't a lot of choice in PCI-less ethernet and the Dreambox code from tuxbox.org uses the same driver which I actually used to set the driver to full duplex. The changes I made for the --rtwin and --fs-rtwin give me the most control over the problem. I can cut the errors to zero but with this I can end up with stuttering so for video I like 8192, With 4096 I have streamed 3 days of internet audio with no errors and I don't see it growing. FWIW, Hauppauge prefers the driver set to 1/2 duplex but I was ending up with collisions and each collision was noticable. If you want a idea of the errors watch the Hauppauge dongle and server traffic with ethereal and it can be half errors. The used to use the kernel default for the rtwin but just started with 8192 because Vista has much improved networking. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
