3com network card duplex mismatch?

[Bob_CatMember]

Hi,

I today have switched to using Zeroshell instead of a low cost hardware firewall. I love the flexibility and power, however I am getting an issue with the internet connection. I am connected via ethernet to a service router which I do not have control over (supplied by the telco). I have allocated ETH01 as the ethernet port, the connection is a 2Mbit/sec leased line and was functioning ok with the other connection method (cable firewall/router). However now I am getting this error in my log very rapidly (between each 1sec and 1min). Just in case it was the ethernet being flooded I enabled QoS on the interface and capped the port to 2Mbit, this didn’t seem to have an effect. I have now capped it at 1.8 Max, 1.6 Garanteed, nothing appeared in the logs for a few minutes but then another one appeared. Is this a configuration error, a bad negotiation or me flooding the port and producing a hardware error?

Perhaps Zeroshell should handle this more gracefully?

Bob

10:24:34 ETH01: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.
10:24:34 Probably a duplex mismatch. See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
10:24:34 Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 622631(7) current 622631(7)
10:24:34 Transmit list 00000000 vs. f571b660.
10:24:34 0: @f571b200 length 80000036 status 00010036
10:24:34 1: @f571b2a0 length 80000036 status 00010036
10:24:34 2: @f571b340 length 80000036 status 00010036
10:24:34 3: @f571b3e0 length 80000036 status 00010036
10:24:34 4: @f571b480 length 80000192 status 00010192
10:24:34 5: @f571b520 length 8000003e status 0001003e
10:24:34 6: @f571b5c0 length 800005ea status 800105ea
10:24:34 7: @f571b660 length 80000042 status 00010042
10:24:34 8: @f571b700 length 80000042 status 00010042
10:24:34 9: @f571b7a0 length 80000042 status 00010042
10:24:34 10: @f571b840 length 80000042 status 00010042
10:24:34 11: @f571b8e0 length 80000042 status 00010042
10:24:34 12: @f571b980 length 80000042 status 00010042
10:24:34 13: @f571ba20 length 80000042 status 00010042
10:24:34 14: @f571bac0 length 8000003a status 0001003a
10:24:34 15: @f571bb60 length 80000042 status 00010042

[raymondMember]

try to replace the network card and upgrade to zeroshell 1.0.beta10 which comes with a new kernel.

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