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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 7:12 am    Post subject: eth working, but no info Reply with quote

I've got two nic's in my computer, both of them works flawless (using eth1 to grab internet and routing over eth0). However, everytime I try to use one of those "bandwidth-programs" (bwbar/mrtg/bwmon/etc) on my eth0, it shows up and tells me what i want to know. That however is not the case for eth1, surely it works, but it seems that it wont publish any of it's information to for example, /proc/net/dev or /proc/net/dev_mcast (only eth0 and my there).

A strange output from dmesg:
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war@gentoo / $ dmesg |grep eth
eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xf080fc00, 00:e0:29:6b:cc:fa, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.


Any clues?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whats the output from 'ifconfig eth1'?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The output is:
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eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:26:75:DB:95
inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Bcast:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 3ffe:bc0:XXX::1/64 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:74993313 errors:1 dropped:13466 overruns:1 frame:0
TX packets:82119743 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:5 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:925563327 (882.6 Mb) TX bytes:514702661 (490.8 Mb)
Interrupt:10


(the XXX is just a hidden value.)
Is it the NOTRAILERS that has something to do with this?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's the driver/NIC? - the only thing I can think of is that the driver isn't creating the entries in /proc (although I'm not sure that the driver is responsible for this - it might be a level further up).

I use tulup,realtek and 3c509 cards with no problems (just checked them all to see if thay had proc entries, they did.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How do i check what driver it's using?
Sorry for this but i only knew about dmesg :X
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm. I thought I'd replied to this... oh well.

Use 'lsmod' it will list all currently loaded modules (assuming the driver is built as a module, not compiled in). Also is eth1 a realtek too or is it a different card?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The eth1 device is using a 3c59x driver, i dont know what model exactly but i assume that this is what you need to know, then, as a second question, does it affect if net network card got the NOTRAILERS option set?
Thank you, i'm really glad someone could help me with this kind of problem!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think the NOTRAILERS matters (although I can't seem to find out what it means) as I have on my 3c509

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:AF:9B:C6:9B
          inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4025701 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1150778 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:379 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:872455219 (832.0 Mb)  TX bytes:184271476 (175.7 Mb)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x310



I would say it looks like a problem with the driver/card combination.


And it has OK /proc entries.

Just found a link http://linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/3/2003/02/3/45475 that explains what notrailers means.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What if you use bwmon on your eth1 card?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't test that - the two NICs are in my firewall which boots from CD, so software installation isn't an option (which is probably a good thing for a firewall)

However it does have:
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Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo:   12564      99    0    0    0     0          0         0    12564      99    0    0    0     0       0          0
dummy0:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth0:1296396059 4396076    0    0    0     0          0         0 221949151 1490260    0    0    0   414       0          0
  eth1:261521641 1787805    0    0    0     0          0         0 1109404278 1653625    0    0    0     0       0          0



in it's /proc/net/dev so I imagine it would work.

eth0 is a 3com3c509 (an old ISA one)
eth1 is some kind of DEC tulip based NIC possibly a Linksys.

Kernel is 2.4.22 vannilla
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 9:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, thanks anyway, i'll be inserting another nic instead, since recompiling the kernel didn't work. I've really appriciated your help, then again. Thank you!
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