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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:59:48 -0700 From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> To: L F <lfabio.linux@...il.com> CC: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: e1000 driver and samba L F wrote: > On 9/14/07, Kok, Auke <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> wrote: >> this slowness might have been masking the issue > That is possible. However, it worked for upwards of twelve months > without an error. > >> I have not yet seen other reports of this issue, and it would be interesting to >> see if the stack or driver is seeing errors. Please post `ethtool -S eth0` after >> the samba connection resets or fails. > If you look for it on the Realtek cards, there had been sporadic > issues up to late 2005. The solution posted universally was 'change > card'. > > I include the content of ethtool -S as requested: > beehive:~# ethtool -S eth4 > NIC statistics: > rx_packets: 43538709 > tx_packets: 68726231 > rx_bytes: 34124849453 > tx_bytes: 74817483835 > rx_broadcast: 20891 > tx_broadcast: 8941 > rx_multicast: 459 > tx_multicast: 0 > rx_errors: 0 > tx_errors: 0 > tx_dropped: 0 > multicast: 459 > collisions: 0 > rx_length_errors: 0 > rx_over_errors: 0 > rx_crc_errors: 0 > rx_frame_errors: 0 > rx_no_buffer_count: 0 > rx_missed_errors: 0 > tx_aborted_errors: 0 > tx_carrier_errors: 0 > tx_fifo_errors: 0 > tx_heartbeat_errors: 0 > tx_window_errors: 0 > tx_abort_late_coll: 0 > tx_deferred_ok: 486 > tx_single_coll_ok: 0 > tx_multi_coll_ok: 0 > tx_timeout_count: 0 > tx_restart_queue: 0 > rx_long_length_errors: 0 > rx_short_length_errors: 0 > rx_align_errors: 0 > tx_tcp_seg_good: 0 > tx_tcp_seg_failed: 0 > rx_flow_control_xon: 488 > rx_flow_control_xoff: 488 > tx_flow_control_xon: 0 > tx_flow_control_xoff: 0 > rx_long_byte_count: 34124849453 > rx_csum_offload_good: 43449333 > rx_csum_offload_errors: 0 > rx_header_split: 0 > alloc_rx_buff_failed: 0 > tx_smbus: 0 > rx_smbus: 0 > dropped_smbus: 0 > > I am no expert, but I do not see anything that obviously points to an > issue there. > Now, something I did not mention before, though it was clearly evident > from context, is that the errors ONLY occur on samba WRITE. I can read > hundreds of GBs of data without error. can you describe your setup a bit more in detail? you're writing from a linux client to a windows smb server? or even to a linux server? which end sees the connection drop? the samba server? the samba linux client? Auke - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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