Re: SMC-Ultra ethernet sluggishness

Scott G. Miller (scgmille@indiana.edu)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:42:43 -0500 (CDT)


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> Useful information would also include the driver detection message,
> giving whether the card is operating in shared memory or I/O mode,
> the output of "cat /proc/net/dev" and any error/warnings reported
> by the driver (use "dmesg").
>
> If there is nothing obviously wrong in that then you may need to use
> tcpdump to get a better look at what is happening during a slowdown.

No warnings on detection, here is the output of those commands:

smc-ultra.c:v2.02 2/3/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
eth0: SMC EtherEZ at 0x240, 00 E0 29 03 E4 79,assigned IRQ 11
programmed-I/O mode.

[09:40:30] root@obsidian:/tmp $ cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive |
Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes
packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo:19186329 45882 0 0 0 0 0 0 19186329
45882 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0:218668534 344342 0 0 0 460 0 268579
4136831 58853 74 0 0 30303 148 0

I'm going to try and get it to go into sluggish mode later today and get
some tcpdump info.

Scott
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