[iyonix-support] EtherK not starting up reliably
- From: Peter Bell <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:01:10 +0100
My Iyo has been running perfectly well for over three and a half years.
In the last week, the ethernet interface has been failing to start up
properly in the morning when I power the machine up - no lights on the
switch (a Netgear Gigabit device), and no connectivity (mail fetch or
ping).
I get the following from EKInfo when the system is in this state:
: *ekinfo
: EtherK device driver for Intel PRO/1000 network controllers, version 0.19
: DCI Version 4.05
: Supported network cards detected: 1
:
: Unit 0 (location: Motherboard)
: Ethernet address 00:09:95:00:11:00
: Link is up; 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
: Controller mode: Multicast, reject frames with errors
:
: Frame types claimed:
: Ethernet 0800 (multicast) handler=(FC2E6610,FB407414)
: Ethernet 0806 (normal) handler=(FC2E6610,FB407414)
: Ethernet 8035 (normal) handler=(FC2E6610,FB407414)
:
: Hardware statistics summary:
: TX frames 169 : RX frames 302
: TX bytes 19,088 : RX bytes 44,649
: TX errors 0 : RX errors 0
:
: Driver statistics (only non-zero statistics are reported):
: Frames received: 302
: Unwanted frames: 27
I'm puzzled at the hardware statistics, showing both TX and RX activity,
when I appear to have no connectivity.
A *rmreinit etherk gets everything up and running.
Is this a sign of the psu starting to go out of spec?
or...
Is it a sign of a problem with the switch? Although all other
ports appear to be working okay, perhaps I should try rebooting that
next time.
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Peter Bell - peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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