RE: [suse-sparc] High network collision rate on SS 10

From: Helmut A.Bender (edv@arcanum.inka.de)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 07:30:41 PST

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    From: Helmut A.Bender <edv@arcanum.inka.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:30:41 +0100
Message-Id: <01121816352704.13780@keepiru>
Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] High network collision rate on SS 10

    Thanks for your answer. But it doesn't seem to be the solution; I have changed
    the MAC address of one of the two used ports but to no avail. It seems to be
    mainly the arkeia client which has problems - one packet each some seconds and
    any other traffic is nearly dead, too.

    Am Fre, 14 Dez 2001 schrieben Sie:
    >Hi,
    >look at http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html -> Section 6: Running -> Q&A No.
    >20.
    >IMHO the best FAQ on the Network for Sparc with Linux!
    >
    >I believe, Linux have big Problems with the same MAC on multiple eth's
    >because this may confuse ARP-algorythms and other Network-relatet things
    >(Firewalls, router, ... ) and may be the reason for slow networktrafics and
    >TCP/IP-Errors on Sparcs with Linux too. But i'm not shure, sorry.
    >Please excuse my bad english.
    >
    >Best Regards
    >
    >Rolf Diesing
    >
    >> -----Original Message-----
    >> From: Helmut A.Bender [mailto:edv@arcanum.inka.de]
    >> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:53 PM
    >> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
    >> Subject: [suse-sparc] High network collision rate on SS 10
    >>
    >>
    >> Hi list,
    >>
    >> I've a problem with my SPARC 10 with SuSE 7.1 (Kernel 2.2.20).
    >>
    >> I use a quad ethernet card, where one channel runs ADSL and
    >> another the local
    >> network. If I have much traffic via the LAN interface (while
    >> backing up with
    >> arkeia) the throuput breaks down. ifconfig shows a extremly high
    >> collision rate.
    >>
    >> Does anybody have a hint what happens there?
    >>
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    >> Greetings
    >> Helmut
    >> hab@helmut-bender.de
    >>
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Helmut
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