[Beowulf] Re: NFS Read Errors

[Joe Landman]

Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Joe Landman wrote:
> 
>>      a) bad driver
>>      b) bad NIC
> 
> ... or a combination of these which translates into RX and/or TX 
> checksumming offload not working properly; the driver then lies to the 
> upper levels and the error is passed through. I don't remember if this 
> was even possible at the time of RHL9, but try to run:

I think ethtool was a post 2.4 kernel utility.  As I remember, there was 
an miitool that gave something roughly like that in functionality.



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