On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

> Sounds like there's either a duplex mismatch somewhere, or your ethernet
> cards/drivers are broken.  Can you try verifying your link settings
> and/or try with different cards?

Might be so, I have a couple o hours every morning (a couple of hours at
work before those normal people get here). During the day I'll get my
hands on another card and try tormorrow morning.
 
> I have no problems doing 300Mbit with full-size packets here (and I
> can't really check beyond that as I don't have enough client hardware).
>
> 
> ICMP source squench is so 1980's.. :)  Seriously, it's deprecated, and
> you shouldn't see these packets anymore.
Yeah, I know but the effect was just like if it was sent.. better to ask
then to wonder...

> > when running vmstat 1 on the bridge/fw the context switches are ~30 000,
> > when the slowdowns are it drops to 100-300 (depending how much other
> > traffic thats going on right now)
> 
> Forwarding packets doesn't cause context switches.  Stop that tcpdump you
> are running in the background and retry your vmstat test.

Sorry, I read the wrong line, interrupts / sec that is, my fault.

This bridge/fw is up and running and I just must say, again, that it works
just fine.

(this performance problem I got, most surely is something else than the
bridge patch).

Im very positive to this bridge/fw and I hope the people behind it knows
that.

Regards 
H�kan

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