Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:56:28PM -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: On Mar 27, 5:50 pm, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Stephenson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Did you do /etc/init/d/networking force-reload after adding this to th interfaces file? no, I just rebooted No need. A restart of the particular service/program is all that is usually required. A kernel upgrade is, if I understand correctly the only time you need to reboot. Apparently, most hardware failure occurs when the system is booting. -- Chris. == Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once etch goes stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
Dave Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 27, 4:00 pm, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel like I am missing something obvious. Maybe a 'post-up' is more useful here. And does interfaces accept variables? Maybe $IFACE was meant to be replaced by the relevant interface name. post-up works! I wonder why mahy other sources sugested pre-up, Has something changed? On 28.03.07 01:49, Andrei Popescu wrote: I only thought if DHCP is the culprit than it would make sense to change the MTU *after* you get the settings from the server. probably because all people expect DHCP to set up MTU properly. I personally wouldn't play with MTU, and I would expect problems if I change it. Also, I don't understand why MTU 576 does that big difference compared to 1500... -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. They say when you play that M$ CD backward you can hear satanic messages. That's nothing. If you play it forward it will install Windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
Hello again, MTU 1500 does indeed fix the speed problem, but I can't make it stick. When i reboot I get MTU 576 again. I presume DHCP is setting this somehow. I have searched around and have tried to put MTU in /etc/network/ interfaces without success. I have not been able to find an example clear enough for my slow learning curve. One site gave an example, but said it was obsolete in Etch. Can someone point me in thr right direction. Thanks, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 12:43 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: Hello again, MTU 1500 does indeed fix the speed problem, but I can't make it stick. When i reboot I get MTU 576 again. I presume DHCP is setting this somehow. I have searched around and have tried to put MTU in /etc/network/ interfaces without success. I have not been able to find an example clear enough for my slow learning curve. One site gave an example, but said it was obsolete in Etch. Can someone point me in thr right direction http://www.debianadmin.com/change-mtu-maximum-transmission-unit-of-network-interface.html Or something like /etc/network/interfaces face eth0 inet dhcp pre-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 500 Hope that helps. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
I feel like I am missing something obvious. here is my interfaces file: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface #allow-hotplug eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 #force higher speed in spite of signal peak dhcp #mtu 1500 iface eth0 inet dhcp pre-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500 and here is the result of ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92 inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1 RX packets:1135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:327004 (319.3 KiB) TX bytes:126844 (123.8 KiB) Interrupt:58 Base address:0xe000 I tried moving the auto eth0 line around, but that either did nothing or broke the network. Thanks again, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
Dave Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel like I am missing something obvious. Maybe a 'post-up' is more useful here. And does interfaces accept variables? Maybe $IFACE was meant to be replaced by the relevant interface name. HTH, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
On Mar 27, 4:00 pm, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel like I am missing something obvious. Maybe a 'post-up' is more useful here. And does interfaces accept variables? Maybe $IFACE was meant to be replaced by the relevant interface name. post-up works! I wonder why mahy other sources sugested pre-up, Has something changed? Thanks again, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
Dave Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 27, 4:00 pm, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel like I am missing something obvious. Maybe a 'post-up' is more useful here. And does interfaces accept variables? Maybe $IFACE was meant to be replaced by the relevant interface name. post-up works! I wonder why mahy other sources sugested pre-up, Has something changed? I only thought if DHCP is the culprit than it would make sense to change the MTU *after* you get the settings from the server. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
Dave Stephenson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I feel like I am missing something obvious. here is my interfaces file: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface #allow-hotplug eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 #force higher speed in spite of signal peak dhcp #mtu 1500 iface eth0 inet dhcp pre-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500 Did you do /etc/init/d/networking force-reload after adding this to th interfaces file? and here is the result of ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92 inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1 RX packets:1135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:327004 (319.3 KiB) TX bytes:126844 (123.8 KiB) Interrupt:58 Base address:0xe000 I added the pre-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500 and forced-reloaded and my ifconfig _did_ show the change. Wayne -- But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers? ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
On Mar 27, 5:50 pm, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Stephenson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Did you do /etc/init/d/networking force-reload after adding this to th interfaces file? no, I just rebooted Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch
On Mar 24, 6:20 pm, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We should probably start with your network card. You will get a list of your (PCI) hardware if you run the command lspci (without quotes) from a terminal or a console. Please do this and copy the line(s) which are related to networking/ethernet into a mail to this list. Somebody might know if this specific hardware has any issues, and otherwise we will just proceed by checking if you have the correct driver module loaded, etc. Another thing that might help is the output of the command /sbin/ifconfig Thanks, The network interface is integrated into the Asus M2N-e motherboard from lspci: 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) from ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92 inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1 RX packets:36594 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:29243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:15710931 (14.9 MiB) TX bytes:3214944 (3.0 MiB) Interrupt:50 Base address:0x4000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:18472 (18.0 KiB) TX bytes:18472 (18.0 KiB) Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:24:25 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: [...] The network interface is integrated into the Asus M2N-e motherboard from lspci: 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) from ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92 inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1 RX packets:36594 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:29243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:15710931 (14.9 MiB) TX bytes:3214944 (3.0 MiB) Interrupt:50 Base address:0x4000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:18472 (18.0 KiB) TX bytes:18472 (18.0 KiB) That looks normal to me. Your card should be supported by the forcedeth module. If I understand your previous email correctly then you have high transfer rates on your internal network, so maybe your slow external connection is not a hardware/driver issue. You can nevertheless check if you see any error messages when you run dmesg | grep -i forcedeth directly after boot. Maybe somebody else knows anything more specific about this card. (I changed the subject line to make it more noticeable.) It also cannot hurt if you post the output of /sbin/modinfo forcedeth (This will provide some more info about the driver, its version, etc.) -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 22:17:35 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:24:25 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: [...] The network interface is integrated into the Asus M2N-e motherboard from lspci: 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) from ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92 inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1 ^^^ I had missed this when I sent my last message: Your MTU (Maximum Transfer Unit) is a bit small. Try to run as root ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500 and check if this improves your external connection speed. You can use http://www.testmy.net/ to measure your download and upload rates. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:35:11PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 22:17:35 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:24:25 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: [...] The network interface is integrated into the Asus M2N-e motherboard from lspci: 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) from ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92 inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1 ^^^ I had missed this when I sent my last message: Your MTU (Maximum Transfer Unit) is a bit small. Try to run as root ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500 If this does not solve your problem, I will be able to give your more information as I am using a M2N32-SLI ... motherboard. (So forcedeth dirver). It works fine for me. -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C0 89FE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
On Mar 25, 2:40 pm, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 22:17:35 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:24:25 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: [...] The network interface is integrated into the Asus M2N-e motherboard from lspci: 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) from ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92 inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1 ^^^ I had missed this when I sent my last message: Your MTU (Maximum Transfer Unit) is a bit small. Try to run as root ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500 and check if this improves your external connection speed. You can usehttp://www.testmy.net/to measure your download and upload rates. mtu 1500 at least doubled my speed. Looks like that was most if not all of my problem. I will fiddle with the value in the morning when the net is quiter. Thanks for your help. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:11:18 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: Hi all, I have been running a current version of Etch for a few months. My internet download speeds are in the range of 10 - 15 kB/s. Until recently I blamed it on my ISP, SignalPeak, which has been having troubles, Recently I noticed that the Windoz boxes on the same router are getting speeds about 3 times faster. Transfers between the Linux windoz boxes are too fast to measure easily, but in the MB/s range. Is this a known ETCH problem or am I doing something strange? I did a fairly standard net install. I can post diagnostic info if some kind soul will tell me which ones would be helpful. We should probably start with your network card. You will get a list of your (PCI) hardware if you run the command lspci (without quotes) from a terminal or a console. Please do this and copy the line(s) which are related to networking/ethernet into a mail to this list. Somebody might know if this specific hardware has any issues, and otherwise we will just proceed by checking if you have the correct driver module loaded, etc. Another thing that might help is the output of the command /sbin/ifconfig -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch
I have been having all sorts of problems lately in setting up a new box with an AMD64 and Etch. BUT . slow speed networking aint one of them in fact I was surprised at how fast it was compared with the old workhorse machine it will eventually replace. So ... sorry... but it looks as if it's possibly your configuration. Ian On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 17:11, Dave Stephenson wrote: Hi all, I have been running a current version of Etch for a few months. My internet download speeds are in the range of 10 - 15 kB/s. Until recently I blamed it on my ISP, SignalPeak, which has been having troubles, Recently I noticed that the Windoz boxes on the same router are getting speeds about 3 times faster. Transfers between the Linux windoz boxes are too fast to measure easily, but in the MB/s range. Is this a known ETCH problem or am I doing something strange? I did a fairly standard net install. I can post diagnostic info if some kind soul will tell me which ones would be helpful. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch
Hi all, I have been running a current version of Etch for a few months. My internet download speeds are in the range of 10 - 15 kB/s. Until recently I blamed it on my ISP, SignalPeak, which has been having troubles, Recently I noticed that the Windoz boxes on the same router are getting speeds about 3 times faster. Transfers between the Linux windoz boxes are too fast to measure easily, but in the MB/s range. Is this a known ETCH problem or am I doing something strange? I did a fairly standard net install. I can post diagnostic info if some kind soul will tell me which ones would be helpful. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
