Try changing to half duplex. -n
Kross Joachim ICM N PG U ID A 1 wrote: > Hi all, > > when looking through the archives, I found that other people had trouble > with ethernet cards before, also with the happy meal interface. However, I > did not find an answer that would help me with my problem, which is the > following: > > I recently installed SuSE Linux 7.3 with the default kernel (uname -a gives: > Linux ouessant 2.4.14 #1 Mon Nov 12 11:25:00 GMT 2001 sparc64 unknown > ) on a Sun Ultra 1. At first, I was quite happy, the machine was doing its > job as a nameserver for a small development network (not much traffic going > to or from the machine, just a few telnet sessions, ntp, DNS queries, and > the like). However, after a few days, it stopped responding to connection > requests from the network, and existing connections froze, and eventually > died, e.g. the windows from X clients transmitted to another machine > disappeared. UDP didn't work any longer, either. However, interestingly, the > machine seemed to still respond to ARP queries, at least other machines had > entries for the machine in their ARP tables, which expired and were renewed, > e.g. when trying to ping the machine after it had stopped responding for > hours. > > While the console was still accessible and everything else on the machine > (i.e. things that did not depend on the network) was working fine, only a > reboot of the machine would alleviate the situation, a restart of the > networking would not do. > > In /var/log/messages, the following messages could be seen reappearing about > once a minute: > > Apr 4 15:38:18 ouessant kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > Apr 4 15:38:18 ouessant kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting > Apr 4 15:38:18 ouessant kernel: eth0: Happy Status 03030000 > TX[000003ff:00000301] > Apr 4 15:38:22 ouessant kernel: eth0: Link is up using internal transceiver > at 100Mb/s, Full Duplex. > > The built-in ethernet card was detected automatically during installation, > here is what the driver says when booting the machine: > > Apr 4 15:43:08 ouessant kernel: sunhme.c:v1.99 12/Sep/99 David S. Miller > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Apr 4 15:43:08 ouessant kernel: eth0: HAPPY MEAL (SBUS) 10/100baseT > Ethernet 08:00:20:89:0f:f5 > > The problem appears to depend to a certain degree on the network traffic > going to and from the machine. I.e. while it was first sitting rather idle > for a few days before stopping the first time, it seems that large amounts > of data transferred (e.g. downloads of large packages) seem to shorten the > time before the machine stops. > > Unfortunately, I do not have another machine to see whether it might be a > hardware problem. However, the machine was running Solaris 8 fine before I > installed Linux, and the Boot-PROM tests (e.g. test net-all) do not report > any errors. > > I am afraid I have lost a lot of time already trying to figure out by myself > what might be wrong, however I am no kernel hacker or even too good a > programmer to even try delving into the kernel sources, so I have come to my > wits end on this one. If I don't find a solution real soon, I fear I'll have > to put Solaris back onto the machine, as the DNS server, while not very > busy, is rather critical to our current project. As I would strongly prefer > to keep Linux, which I am using on Intel machines without trouble, I would > really appreciate any help and advice you could give. If you need any other > information on the machine for that, please let me know. > > Thanks, > Joachim > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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