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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:10:41 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: peculiar problem with 2.6, 8139too + ACPI
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Len Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 06:30, Robert Fendt wrote:
> 
>>On 14 May 2004 21:36:38 -0400
>>Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If the 8139too has statistics counters showing if it gets
>>>RX buffer over-runs, that would be interseting to observe.
>>
> 
>>a) with 'processor' loaded
>>
>>robert@betazed:~$ wget http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/smgl-i386-2.6.5-20040414.iso.bz2
>>--12:27:16--  http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/smgl-i386-2.6.5-20040414.iso.bz2
>>           => `smgl-i386-2.6.5-20040414.iso.bz2'
>>Resolving download.sourcemage.org... 152.2.210.81
>>Connecting to download.sourcemage.org[152.2.210.81]:80... connected.
>>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>>Length: 142,065,569 [text/plain]
>>
>> 0% [                                     ] 202,609        2.30K/s ETA 10:17:41
>>
>>
>>robert@betazed:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
>>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:6E:8A:DD:BA  
>>          inet addr:129.217.168.125  Bcast:129.217.168.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:6eff:fe8a:ddba/64 Scope:Link
>>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>          RX packets:933 errors:117 dropped:212 overruns:117 frame:0
> 
> 
> BINGO
> 
> There may be a way to get more detailed stats out of the driver with
> netstat or something, Jeff would know.


Almost all the standard stats are listed in /proc/net/dev...  8139 
hardware doesn't have any NIC-specific stats besides the Rx-Missed 
counter either, IIRC.

	Jeff