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[vdr] Re: LAN cable length / Streaming Plug-In
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 16:20:16 +0200, Jörg Knitter 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
Mine looks kinda like this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:BD:E5:52
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:7dff:febd:e552/10 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:34345703 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1306
TX packets:23959895 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2469905828 (2355.4 Mb) TX bytes:4219703590 (4024.2
Mb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x3000 Memory:de000000-de000154
>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?
I've build a lot of systems on this ECS K7S5A board. None of them
showed problems with the LAN port. Ok I've to admit that none of these
systems runs linux but WinXP (shame on me).
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