Rx error: status 08 and 8c

[Nicholas J Kreucher]

hello... i am getting performance problems with my 3c905B card. pings
are about 5-20% loss... and i get Rx errors in /sbin/ifconfig. i changed
the debug for the module to 4 and the Rx error messages i get are:

Rx error: status 08
Rx error: status 0c

note i never get Tx errors... i get a few Rx overruns and Rx frame: is
about 2/3 what Rx errors: is.

i was looking though the mailing list archive and a suggestion for Rx
errors for the 2.2.5-22 redhat 6.0 kernel was to add a route the main
interface route with a window of 2048. i did this and the errors became
less frequent, but pings were still pretty bad (~15%).

i tried a different cable, port etc and still no improvement. i tried a
different computer (windows & different net card though) and pings were
100% using same port and cable.

i also tried putting full_duplex in 1 and 0, nothing really
changed much between the two. also tried options=8, but nothing really
changed much either...

i am running redhat 6.0 (2.2.5-22) on a Pentium-II 300MHz machine.

a ping from me (netmask 255.248.0.0) to my router is
below...

PING 35.10.22.1 (35.10.22.1) from 35.10.131.65 : 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 35.10.22.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=3.2 ms
64 bytes from 35.10.22.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=4.7 ms
.
.
.
--- 35.10.22.1 ping statistics ---
61 packets transmitted, 53 packets received, 13% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1.0/1.8/9.4 ms

/sbin/ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:4B:73:9B:0D  
          inet addr:35.10.131.65  Bcast:35.15.255.255  Mask:255.248.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:11615 errors:93 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:148
          TX packets:4921 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000 


any ideas anyone? thanks!

        - nick