On Tuesday 20 June 2006 03:17, Mihir Sevak wrote: > Hello everybody, > I am running Gentoo AMD - 64 machine as a bridge. Unfortunately > when i receive huge # > of packets (hundreds of thousands of bits / sec) it seems that i am > dropping some of the packets totally. I am using IPTraf for monitoring > my traffic. > So either the information being displayed is wrong or there is > something in linux kernel which is dropping (buffering and loosing) > the packets.
Probably the information is right. A critical point is actually what kind of interface you have. Be aware that a gigabit ethernet port has only marginally less bandwith than a pci bus (http://www.acme.com/build_a_pc/bandwidth.html). If you use the system as a bridge (2 cards) that means that you cannot sustain the 1gbs bandwith and will drop packets (even with a single card you will, because the pci bus is used for more than the network card). The solution would be to use a pci express system. Paul ps. dropping packets is not really a problem. (Monitoring dropped packets could also be done with ifconfig). -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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