First post, by Louthrax
Thanks to the kind help on this site, I've finally managed to have a fully working network setup for my old Windows 98 PC. I can now backup and restore easily my different partitions (including the OS one) from my PuppyLinux CD to my NAS, everything is working well.
I just had a small doubt when I checked the "quality" of the connection during a big partition restoration. Linux reported lots of networking errors:
root:~#ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:4F:27:C6:CA
inet addr:192.168.1.16 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1897565 errors:1521 dropped:5481 overruns:1019 frame:0
TX packets:884304 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2588203718 (2.4 GiB) TX bytes:297794961 (283.9 MiB)
Despite those errors (errors:1521 dropped:5481 overruns:1019), I know the restoration went 100% well thanks to the global 7zip CRC on the TARed file.
I'm just curious to know if those networking errors are kind of "expected" when using an old network card, of if there's something wrong with my network card ?
Let me know if you experienced something similar or have any hints. I'll probably order another PCI or ISA network card anyway...
EDIT: My other "modern" PCs connected on the same router always report 0 errors, even for very big data transfers.