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