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 _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
