From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: sky2 rx errors printing to the console Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:05:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1224079530.3984.180.camel@achroite> References: <76366b180810150640h230ee681wd9cb474dbe4c7045@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Paprocki Return-path: Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.140]:34555 "EHLO smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755280AbYJOOFf (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:05:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <76366b180810150640h230ee681wd9cb474dbe4c7045@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 14:40 +0100, Andrew Paprocki wrote: > Does anyone know if these status values imply what is wrong? Could > this be caused by a faulty cable? Looking at the code around this message, it appears that least over/under-length, framing and CRC errors (and maybe others) can trigger this. A faulty cable could certainly result in these sorts of errors, most likely CRC errors. "grep -r . /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/" will show you detailed error statistics for eth0. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.