r8169 driver creates lots of dropped packages

[Egon Alter]

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic

found in kubuntu/intepid from today, kernel 2.6.27-7.11

My onboard ethernet chip r8169 (pciid: 10ec:8168) reports a lot of dropped packages, beside it works fine:

e.g. ifconfig eth0 gives:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:c6:36:a9:60
          inet addr:192.168.0.137 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe36:a960/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:175717 errors:0 dropped:306301001254 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:125195 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:226815906 (226.8 MB) TX bytes:15798464 (15.7 MB)
          Interrupt:254 Base address:0x4000

I manualy applied this patch from netdev-trunk:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=523a609496dbc3897e530db2a2f27650d125ea00;hp=e93dcb11dd6468000f2f018bd887e94b074ce931

which fixes it.

[pongtawat (pongtawat)]

I seems to have the same problem with r8169:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [cut]
          inet addr:[cut] Bcast:[cut] Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: [cut] Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:91092 errors:0 dropped:391079743998 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:50374 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:86636741 (86.6 MB) TX bytes:5878234 (5.8 MB)
          Interrupt:254 Base address:0x2000

[Egon Alter (egon-alter)]

its already fixed upstream - so just a matter of time ...

[Egon Alter (egon-alter)]

fixed in linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic (intrepid)