Re: Lots of input errors...

From: Shawn Ramsey (shawn_at_cpl.net)
Date: 06/27/03

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:49:04 -0700
    
    

    > > Ok.. It is set hard to 100BT/FD on both ends. I don't know if you saw
    this,
    > > but since resetting the stats a few hours ago, it shows no errors at all
    on
    > > their end, but were still getting errors on our end... The CRC and frame
    > > errors could have been from a media mismatch when things were first
    setup.
    > > Im not sure if the stats have ever been reset. Assuming the errors stay
    at
    > > zero on their end, any ideas? Am going to try another server/router, and
    if
    > > things look better, start replacing hardware on this router...
    > >
    >
    > I would say the physical wire is probably bad. Seeing unidirectional
    errors
    > in this case wouldn't be uncommon; one of the pair of the receive wires
    may
    > have issues. Have you swapped the cable? Most of the time you won't see
    > framing errors related to duplex mismatching.
    >
    > Also, although this sounds contrary to sane thinking about hard coding of
    > duplex and speed, the Cisco will do better autosensing if you are using an
    > Intel ethernet card on the server. I'm not sure why, but I've seen this
    > happen in the past.

    Im not sure if I asked this, but assuming the cable is bad, could this be
    causing the very high interupt usage we are seeing?

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