High number of ethernet errors. Tool for testing the ethernet card?
- by Fabio Dalla Libera
I have an Asus Sabertooth X79.
I often get corrupted files. I checked the RAM, but memtest finds no errors. To avoid the possibility of disk errors, I tried copying the files to tmpfs.
If I copy from the network, I get md5sum mismatches about once every 10 times using a 6Gb file. Copying from RAM to RAM, I didn't get mismatches.
I get a very high number of errors in ifconfig (compared to others PCs I just took as reference, which have 0 with much more traffic).
Here is an example
RX packets:13972848 errors:200 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:101
The motherboard is new, but do you think there're some problems with it?
What could I use to test the (integrated) network adapter?
What else do you think I should double check?
--edit--
I tried another NIC, it gives a lot of Corrupted MAC on Input.
Disconnecting: Packet corrupt
lost connection.
I noticed that another PC downloads at 11.1MB/s without problems.
This pc at 66.0 MB/s. Is there any way to try to limit the speed?
