In some email I received from Jorgen Lundman, sie wrote: > > So the morning crush is on: > > Currently about 12% packet loss. My shell running netstat -i can pause for > almost indefinite periods, but wakes up if I push return..
You may get better if you change the compile option from "-g" to "-xO5" or "-O3" for DEBUG in the top level Makefile. > If it is just cheap/poor hardware that can't keep up with the load, that is > fine, put in a different nic card, or somehow setup to use two nics on the > LAN side (can one do that with ipfilter?). Or perhaps replace the entire box. > > It just seemed like a 100base link shouldn't be able to take down this box of > "reasonable" hardware? You need to understand the hardware design well before you can really decide what its limits are. Without IPFilter, do you see any packet loss and how much strain is the system under? e.g. if you have a couple of 1GigE PCI card in a PC, don't expect to be able to push them both at 100% capacity because the 32bit PCI bus running at 33MHz tops out at around 1Gb/s. Darren
