[TriLUG] Two residual wireless questions

[Andrew Perrin]

Greetings-

After setting up a home wireless network, I have a couple of residual
problems/ questions. 

1.) I  get lots of the following message in syslog:
Jan  8 11:46:38 simmel kernel: eth1: Unknown Rx error (0x3). Frame
dropped.
Jan  8 11:46:54 simmel last message repeated 2 times
Jan  8 11:48:02 simmel last message repeated 2 times
Jan  8 11:49:48 simmel kernel: eth1: Unknown Rx error (0x3). Frame
dropped.
(END) 


2.) I get duplicate packets when pinging from one wireless host to
another:
simmel:/var/log# ping jacobi-wlan
PING jacobi-wlan.perrins (192.168.0.7): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=15.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=15.6 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.0.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=1.0 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.0.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.9 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.0.7: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.7: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.9 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.0.7: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=0.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.7: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=0.9 ms (DUP!)

--- jacobi-wlan.perrins ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, +5 duplicates, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.7/3.7/15.6 ms


Any idea what these might be? What should I post?

Hardware is a Belkin WAP, Sony Vaio PCG-Z505HS with a Belkin wireless
PCMCIA card. Debian 3.0r1 (woody), kernel 2.4.18 on the Vaio.  The other
wireless host is an HP desktop with a D-Link PCI wireless card, running
Windows XP Pro.


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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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