Just a quicky guys: over the past few days I was troubleshooting my moderately new GA-965GM-S2 after I noticed it was dropping some traceroute pings for no reason - if I did the same traceroute from the gateway/router the traffic was going through, nothing would be dropped. I eventually found that Endian's outgoing firewall appeared to be causing and (disabling it would eliminate the problem 99% of the time) but during my experimentation discovered netstat's -e switch - which reported 17 errors or so in the "Sent" column.
I also found Marvel (manufacturer of the PHY chip on the 965GM-S2) has a great diagnostics utility which reports that the NIC will occasionally fail the hardware checksum test. I should however note this seemed to only occur in any regular fashion on the first run of the test (on close repetitions it'd be fine) and I'm not sure if this was an actual error or just poor programming on the part of the application (it knocks out the NIC's link to conduct the test(s) which caused me not to worry about it excessively).
Should I worry about this (as much as say Linux's ifconfig error count, which if above 0 essentially means replace the NIC)? It is integrated, would it be worth RMA'ing the motherboard?
I also found Marvel (manufacturer of the PHY chip on the 965GM-S2) has a great diagnostics utility which reports that the NIC will occasionally fail the hardware checksum test. I should however note this seemed to only occur in any regular fashion on the first run of the test (on close repetitions it'd be fine) and I'm not sure if this was an actual error or just poor programming on the part of the application (it knocks out the NIC's link to conduct the test(s) which caused me not to worry about it excessively).
Should I worry about this (as much as say Linux's ifconfig error count, which if above 0 essentially means replace the NIC)? It is integrated, would it be worth RMA'ing the motherboard?
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