Peter Smithson wrote:
> In article <crgrno$k2h$1@tgx093.str.allianz.de>, b79xan@gmx.de says...
>
>
>>You could use
>># entstat -d ent0
>>to see (among other usefull stuff) collision statistics and media speed
>>running. Make sure that there are enough nfs daemons running on the nfs
>>server. And (as the other posters suggested) if you can avoid the auto
>>negotiation as AIX was never good with that (and still is not).
>
>
> I'm not too worried about NFS specific problems as I think NFS isn't
> working due to a general network problem - otherwise ftp & rcp would be
> OK.
>
> I've used that command you gave and I think it's telling me something -
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Elapsed Time: 1 days 1 hours 13 minutes 57 seconds
>
> Transmit Statistics: Receive Statistics:
> -------------------- -------------------
> Packets: 152693 Packets: 327703
> Bytes: 55840399 Bytes: 115845744
> Interrupts: 488 Interrupts: 324792
> Transmit Errors: 1856 Receive Errors: 0
> Packets Dropped: 1 Packets Dropped: 0
> Bad Packets: 0
> Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 86
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> There are quite a lot of Transmit errors for 1 day's usage (no recieve
> errors). I've noticed that NFS works fine as long as I'm only reading
> from the NFS drive.
>
> The same command on our AIX 4 box shows -
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Elapsed Time: 0 days 7 hours 34 minutes 5 seconds
>
> Transmit Statistics: Receive Statistics:
> -------------------- -------------------
> Packets: 83505 Packets: 125555
> Bytes: 40863328 Bytes: 43194960
> Interrupts: 83501 Interrupts: 125266
> Transmit Errors: 0 Receive Errors: 160
> Packets Dropped: 0 Packets Dropped: 0
> Bad Packets: 0
> Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 9
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> No trasmit errors there at all.
>
> I think the auto negotiate is OK -
>
> Media Speed Running: 100 Mbps Half Duplex


IF you have the switch in either auto or full duplex normally the
adapter will negociate to half. So, if you want to avoid problems, set
BOTH the adapter and the switch to 100/Full Duplex. Also, check the CAT
of the cable. It must be at least 5.

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BC