dragon wrote: > When connecting two computers (with one e1000 each) back to back, I > tried simple rx/tx > work but found some problems. > > Situation: > Computer A is rx enabled only and always ready to receive packets. > Computer B is both rx and tx enabled. B sends packets at high rate > about 742Mbps(62Kfps). > > Problem: > A receives packets OK. > But B could also receive spliceco/spanning_tree(for bridge) packets > as many as 55Mbps(118Kfps). The packet data is 60Bytes long and read > as following: > > 01 80 C2 00 00 01 00 07 09 0D 5F F8 88 08 00 01 > 06 80 00 00 00 ................................ > ............................................... > > > Reading some information on the internet, I come to know what > spanning_tree is. > But I still want to ask about it because such packets are too many to > lead to > performance degrading. > > Can I discard such packets in some way? > Will so high rate it also occur when
I suggest not loading the bridge module, if you're back to back you certainly don't want to be bridging. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
