On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:24:45 -0400
Brian McBurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've got a bridge setup on a P3 800 with 512 mb memory, using two 3com
> cards. I also applied the bridge-nf patch.

Which 3com cards, are they PCI?

> I took 2 other machines and used crossover cables to link directly to
> the bridge. What I'm seeing is, if one machine sends out about 500
> packets a second (1472 bytes each), they all make it to the second
> machine through the bridge. But if I up that to 1000 packets, I am
> seeing packet loss (anywhere from 10% to 50%). The cards on the bridge
> are showing that they're in mode 100baseTX-FD using mii-tool. Now 1000
> packets, 1472 bytes each, is just over 10 mbps. So I'm guessing that one
> of the cards isn't actually set to 100 mbps. I saw the part int he faq
> about using options=8 full_duplex=1. If I do this, though, one of the
> cards does not work.

What is the CPU utilization?  Are you just bridging or bridging and filtering?

> Does anyone know what else might be causing the packet loss? Or what I
> can do about the one card not working correctly with those options?

Could be running into memory or PCI bus bandwidth limits.
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