network question

[davez]

Hi we have recently set up an offsite hosted server using RHEL 5 which provides access to our client app (java) on site. The problem we have is what seems to be intermitent (and random) disconnections from the client to the server. I have added the results from ethtool -S eth0 below, does anything stand out from this?

thanks
NIC statistics:
rx_packets: 94056896
tx_packets: 33249654
rx_bytes: 8015341088
tx_bytes: 254663865950
rx_broadcast: 0
tx_broadcast: 0
rx_multicast: 0
tx_multicast: 0
rx_errors: 0
tx_errors: 0
tx_dropped: 0
multicast: 0
collisions: 0
rx_length_errors: 0
rx_over_errors: 0
rx_crc_errors: 0
rx_frame_errors: 0
rx_no_buffer_count: 0
rx_missed_errors: 0
tx_aborted_errors: 0
tx_carrier_errors: 0
tx_fifo_errors: 0
tx_heartbeat_errors: 0
tx_window_errors: 0
tx_abort_late_coll: 0
tx_deferred_ok: 0
tx_single_coll_ok: 0
tx_multi_coll_ok: 0
tx_timeout_count: 0
tx_restart_queue: 5
rx_long_length_errors: 0
rx_short_length_errors: 0
rx_align_errors: 0
tx_tcp_seg_good: 14650710
tx_tcp_seg_failed: 351
rx_flow_control_xon: 0
rx_flow_control_xoff: 0
tx_flow_control_xon: 0
tx_flow_control_xoff: 0
rx_long_byte_count: 8015341088
rx_csum_offload_good: 94030005
rx_csum_offload_errors: 25
rx_header_split: 0
alloc_rx_buff_failed: 0
tx_smbus: 0
rx_smbus: 0
dropped_smbus: 0

 

[inforeqd]

Not sure of this suggestion but I have seen problems with some of the drivers for the ethernet on certain servers. Do you have the right driver loaded?? I know thats a stupid suggestion and pretty rudimentary and all but just a thought.

inforeqd