[vdr] Re: LAN cable length / Streaming Plug-In

[Jörg Knitter <joerg.knitter@gmx.de>]

Maarten van den Berg wrote:

> That is simple to verify; your're obviously running linux, right ? ;-)
> So, look at the lines from 'ifconfig' (as root) for the ethernetcard.
> These look somewhat like this:
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:7D:B6:2C:6B
>           inet addr:10.0.0.1  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:218423148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:374519874 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:4056969579 (3869.0 Mb)  TX bytes:4168451818 (3975.3
Mb)
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1f00

Thanks a lot for this tip.

There is another point I want to mention on this list: All people here
on the mailing list talk about a network card. I use the network
connectors on the mainboards (Elitegroup K7S5A and Epox 8KAl).

Especially the Elitegroup board showed a lot of hidden bugs in the past
e.g. problems with the USB port, capturing with analog TV cards etc.
Additionally, this board likes to put every hardware on one (or at least
two) interrupts so that a lot of components share their interrupts. Is
it possible that this board also has hidden bugs (wanted to say
'features' :-) ) at the LAN port that influences the data transfer? Any
experiences with this board? What about shielding on those
on-board-LAN-solutions?

Jörg



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