>
> Heh, well I can assure you that there is no code in the linux ethernet
> bridge code to actively lock up the machine under load ;) Under no
> circumstance should active network equipment 'lock up' due to high load.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean with your question. If you are asking
> whether linux ever drops packets, I can assure you that it will. If you
> are bridging from 100Mbit to 10Mbit, it takes ten times longer to transmit
> the data than to receive it, so if insist that no packets be dropped, even
> if you put the 100Mbit under load for a day, you will need 10 days worth
> of 10Mbit buffering capacity in the bridge, which is about a terabyte.
>
> It's generally acceptable to drop traffic under load. The end hosts are
> supposed to detect this and retransmit. It will not benefit performance
> if this happens, but things should keep working.
>
Unfortunatly there are some networkcards which doesn't perform well. I had
realtek network cards in my bridge. This was a very bad idea. I did had some
bug in the driver. Although this had been fixed it is still not wise to use
those cards.
--
Jeroen Makkinje
Department of Interfaces
DEBYE INSTITUTE - CHEMISTRY
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