netstat -i shows tx-errors

[J. Epperson]

For reference, what switches are you using?

On Thu, October 2, 2008 19:24, Howard, Chris wrote:
>
> I did some cable-swapping after hours.
>
> I concluded that it was the on the switch end.  Using a different
> switch of the same model, everything came up 100-Full.  Different
> cables or different ports did not matter.
>
> I'm going to watch my TX-Error and TX-collision values for the next
> few days, but hope I have it fixed.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian McGrew [mailto:brian at visionpro.com]
> Sent: Thu 10/2/2008 2:09 PM
> To: Howard, Chris; linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: netstat -i shows tx-errors
>
> Try a different switch port and/or a different cable.  I have a 2950 and
> it's very picky about Cat6 cables!!!
>
> -brian
>
>
> On 10/2/08 1:05 PM, "Howard, Chris" <HowardC at prpa.org> wrote:
>
>> I have a Dell 2850 running Red Hat EL 4.x
>>
>> One of the network interfaces, I believe it is a dual port e1000 card,
>> is showing this:
>>
>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:24:2F:D4
>>           inet addr:10.202.1.4  Bcast:10.202.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>           inet6 addr: fe80::214:22ff:fe24:2fd4/64 Scope:Link
>>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:158347 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:176684 errors:8834 dropped:0 overruns:0
>> carrier:8834
>>           collisions:15324 txqueuelen:100
>>           RX bytes:117555605 (112.1 MiB)  TX bytes:109598594 (104.5 MiB)
>>           Base address:0xecc0 Memory:fe6e0000-fe700000
>>
>>
>> What might be the problem with TX-errors and TX-carrier?  I have not
>> been
>> able to find any information about TX-carrier and what that means.
>>
>> It is set up for autonegotiate, and the switch it is attached to, I
>> believe
>> the switch
>> is bumping it down to 100/half-duplex.  Would that cause the errors?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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