> We have confirmed that ASPM is disabled in the BIOS and in the kernel
> on both system, as mentioned on the SourceForge forum.  We have
> upgraded the BIOS on the Xeon based system to the latest version from
> Supermicro, and it made no difference.  The Atom based board is already
> current for BIOS.
Good

> 
> 
> Both systems are exhibiting similar issues - they start losing data
> under even modest multicast transmit load.
Can you please provide the statistics from both the stack and for the actual 
device HW (via ethtool).  The packets have to have gone somewhere and reported 
by the stats.  They just don't disappear for the system or wire.  This might 
point to where the problem is.
 

Cheers,
John


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