Re: Call for testers: Atheros AR8121(L1E)/AR8113/AR8114(L2E) ethernet

Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh_at_gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:58:54PM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:

>  > you some additional info:
>  > -----
>  > uname -a ftp://ftp.bsam.ru/pub/tmp/EeePC/uname.2
>  > netstat -w 1 ftp://ftp.bsam.ru/pub/tmp/EeePC/netstat.ale.2
>  > sysctl dev.ale.0.stats ftp://ftp.bsam.ru/pub/tmp/EeePC/sysctl.ale.stats.2
>  > iostat -w 1 ftp://ftp.bsam.ru/pub/tmp/EeePC/iostat.ale.2
>  > -----
>  > 
>  > The interesting one is a netstat one. I'm not sure what zeroes for
>  > packets mean while trafic exists.
>  > 
>
> Hmm, I also have no idea why netstat(1) shows such a non-sense
> value while transfer is in progress. I guess you can easily write a
> script that extracts interesting MAC statistics of ale(4).
> For example,
> sysctl dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_frames
> sysctl dev.ale.0.stats.tx.good_frames
>
> Use 'sysctl -d dev.ale.0.stats' to get complete descriptoin of each
> node.

Here is the diff of "sysctl dev.ale.0.stats" before and after fetching a
~300MB file:
-----
--- sysctl.ale.stats	2008-11-11 09:58:18.000000000 +0300
+++ sysctl.ale.stats.1	2008-11-11 09:59:00.000000000 +0300
_at__at_ -1,39 +1,39 _at__at_
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_frames: 925908
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_bcast_frames: 360
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_frames: 1157295
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_bcast_frames: 383
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_mcast_frames: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.pause_frames: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.control_frames: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.crc_errs: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.len_errs: 0
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_octets: 1324666141
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_bcast_octets: 33564
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_octets: 1655816427
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_bcast_octets: 35226
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_mcast_octets: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.runts: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.fragments: 0
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_64: 618
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_65_127: 97
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_128_255: 24
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_256_511: 73
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_512_1023: 8
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_1024_1518: 925419
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_64: 664
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_65_127: 104
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_128_255: 26
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_256_511: 78
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_512_1023: 13
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_1024_1518: 1156767
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_1519_max: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.trunc_errs: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.fifo_oflows: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.rrs_errs: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.align_errs: 0
-dev.ale.0.stats.rx.filtered: 331
-dev.ale.0.stats.tx.good_frames: 613925
+dev.ale.0.stats.rx.filtered: 357
+dev.ale.0.stats.tx.good_frames: 766623
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.good_bcast_frames: 4
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.good_mcast_frames: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.pause_frames: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.control_frames: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.excess_defers: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.defers: 0
-dev.ale.0.stats.tx.good_octets: 40519928
+dev.ale.0.stats.tx.good_octets: 50598115
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.good_bcast_octets: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.good_mcast_octets: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.frames_64: 4
-dev.ale.0.stats.tx.frames_65_127: 613921
+dev.ale.0.stats.tx.frames_65_127: 766619
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.frames_128_255: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.frames_256_511: 0
 dev.ale.0.stats.tx.frames_512_1023: 0
-----

Do you see anything suspicious?


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