[nylug-talk] Suspected NIC problems

[Mordy Ovits]

On Saturday 07 June 2003 09:03 pm, jose sanchez wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am experiencing some problems with my webserver:
> Sometimes it responds well to all requests but,
> sometimes it times out. I am suspecting that the NIC
> is causing the problems. I don't have any firewall
> installed on the server. I ran ifconfig and noticed
> that there were a lot of errors:
>
>
> ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> 00:04:5A:44:14:56 inet addr:192.168.2.50
> Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> RX packets:20149 errors:3594 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:4283 TX packets:20634 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:57 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:8354326 (7.9 MiB)  TX bytes:7836117 (7.4 MiB)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xfc00
>
> Is my suspection correct?
>
> Thanks in advanced for your help.

First suspect: duplex.  Then suspect the cable and the [hub or switch].  Does 
the switch have high error counters on on the port?

Mordy