problem of packet loss with e100 machine with fedora core 4

[Eric Doutreleau]

Bob Chiodini wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:11 +0100, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
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>>Tim wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:11 +0100, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
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>>>>i have a lab with fedora core 4 machine with a network card 
>>>>01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet
>>>>Controller (rev 02)
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>>>>and from time to time the network seems not working anymore.
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>>>>after a few second the network goes up again.
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>>>>The result is that i lose about 30% of packet.
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>>>>when i boot windows on the same machine i have the same problem.
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>>>That does seem to suggest a hardware fault (a bad NIC, or the
>>>combination of your motherboard and NIC).  Can you try a different one?
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>>well i made a mistake with my sentence
>>i have no problem under windows
>>and i have 12 same computer and all have the problems with FC4
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>>nevertheless thanks for your answer
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>Eric,
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>What does ethtool eth0 tell you about the interface?  Are you getting
>any errors in /var/log/messages concerning eth0?
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>This sounds like an autonegotiation (duplex) problem.
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>Bob...
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here is the result
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 100Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 1
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: g
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
        Link detected: yes

the only thing i got from messages concerning eth0 is theses messages

Dec 22 12:17:04 b02-07 kernel: e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfc000000, 
irq 11, MAC addr 00:0C:76:E5:E8:C8
Dec 22 12:17:08 b02-07 kernel: e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 
100Mbps, full-duplex
Dec 22 12:17:15 b02-07 ntpd[2459]: Listening on interface eth0, 
157.159.15.231#123