[BBLISA] Generate errors on eth devices

[David Allan]

I'm not sure if this is a helpful suggestion or not, but I'll throw it out
there anyway.  If you have anybody on staff that knows a little C, you
could hack the driver to bump the error counter every N packets.

Dave


On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Mark W. Manley wrote:

> Can you hard-code the ports to different link speeds/duplex modes, maybe
> setting the switch to 100/full and your device to 100/half?  I know that
> an old Solaris bug where the hme interfaces wouldn't negotiate their
> settings correctly would often lead to this scenario and we'd get tons
> of errors on the interface.  You should be able to replicate with the
> ethtool.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> -MM
>
> On 4/18/2006 5:15 PM, Tim Winter wrote:
>
> >Good afternoon,
> >
> >We are attempting to test several system reporting utilities and have run
> >into issues with our SNMP information coming from one of our servers.  In
> >order to test this further, we need a way to generate errors on a Linux
> >ethernet device.  I have searched google, but have not been able to find a
> >method of generating these errors.  Does anyone know of a way to do this?
> >
> >Thank you,
> >-Tim Winter
> >
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