Get a faster NIC/Processor.
P3-733 (133 MHz FSB) and Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet (with microcode loaded, aka less interrupt calls)) are not fast enough for 9Mbps bandwidth stats ?
Wow...
What kind of hardware should be used here ?
You're going to have to do some research to figure out what that counter
means on your OS.
I'll do that tomorrow.
So it might be ntop not accepting packets fast enough, or it might be a true drop in the kernel before ntop ever sees them - typically, the kernel drops packets when it can't keep up with the interrupt rate (either the NIC buffer being overflowed or the kernel buffer).
What I don't understand is that ntop states packet is dropped BUT counted in traffic stats, protocol stats, etc.
And that I got more packets dropped than packet actually counted (percentage over 100%). How can this happen ?!
After a few hours (5:40), I'm now down to 73% packet dropped, while the bandwidth is still arround 9Mbps with more packets than ever (people playing on game servers for arround 2Mbps).
David.
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