We have a couple of Zotac mini PCs that we have installed at remote locations. One customer seems to be having network issues - we're not sure. It seems to be one of those ghosts in the machines. The ethernet port is lit with yellow on the left side, green on the right. Usually that would tell me that the connection is less than 100M but according to the connected switch and the output from 'ethtool', a utility I'm not that familiar with, we are connected at gigabit speed. Maybe that is what the yellow means? Anyway, a possibly related question regards the RX-DRP column. Why does this column have a value when the networking switches, etc say that there are no dropped packets or connection problems?
Iface MTU RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
enp2s0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BMU
enp3s0 1500 2513963 0 35220 0 1329805 0 0 0 BMRU
lo 65536 1693 0 0 0 1693 0 0 0 LRU
wlp1s0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BMU
Here is the output from 'ethtool'
Settings for enp3s0:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
drv probe ifdown ifup
Link detected: yes
I'm just trying to understand something I didn't before and get a customer back to running at full speed here. Any insight at all is appreciated.
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