On Tuesday 20 June 2006 13:27, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > 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
Yah,either PCI Express or PCI-X, which, at least for 64-bit 133MHz, has gobs more bandwidth presently than PCI Express. -- [email protected] mailing list
