From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Aulbert Subject: Re: Yukon2 88E8056 card problem with switch? Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:41:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4A0C3BB5.4080108@aei.mpg.de> References: <4A0BC769.9010507@aei.mpg.de> <20090514080615.6419b121@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from welcomes-you.com ([85.214.50.128]:51335 "EHLO smtp.welcomes-you.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751010AbZENQDR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2009 12:03:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090514080615.6419b121@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi (thanks for the quick reply) Stephen Hemminger schrieb: > > You are only seeing partial flow control. My recommendation would be to > turn off flow control with: > ethtool -A eth0 autoneg off rx off tx off I've tried that, but that did *not* change the overall behavior - although I omitted autosense off so far. I'll redo the test. > > It works with other switches, so check cable and try another switch. > I'll check that again, however we are pretty limited to this brand since we need to have these because of the big uplink capabilities. If I cannot reproduce this with another switch, I'll start bugging them :) Cheers Carsten