Did you reboot Solaris when upgrading? I suspect that this is a
driver/patch issue on Solaris and not SRSS.

Make sure that you are up to date on patches.

Brad

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:40 -0400, Jimmy Fox wrote:

> We are getting 80% loss which is creating an almost unusable system.
> These guys are only opening email and entering data into websites.
> 
> I think I'm going to roll back to the old SRSS because at this point I
> think it is a glitch.
> 
> -Jimmy
> 
> On 18 Sep 2007 10:45:53 -0500, Darrel Hankerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jimmy Fox writes:
> >
> >    We don't have bad latency. Just huge amounts of dropped packets.
> >
> > Sorry, I wrote "latency" when I meant "packet loss" as measured by
> > utcapture.  We can easily trigger 20% packet loss on simple flash
> > animations.  At this level, the desktop is largely unresponsive.
> >
> >    Darrel makes me think that perhaps because all DTU traffic is funneled
> >    through a single interface the server doesn't know how to adjust for
> >    the lower network's bandwidth. Since the local LAN is 100Mb, it
> >    doesn't know to throttle down for the 3Mb network? I only have one
> >    Interface to provide to the DTU traffic so I can't test this theory.
> >
> > Well...we have exceptionally good networking.  We tested 100 Mb/s due
> > to recommendations by Sun for somewhat similar problems.  In our case,
> > connecting to 100 Mb/s Cisco switch ports helps Ray 2 packet loss,
> > but has little affect on the Ray 1 problem.
> >
> > Our experience where we have very little packet loss on direct
> > connections through inexpensive switches, or routing through another
> > host with Rays on one interface and the world on the other, should
> > explain something.  We finally admitted defeat and used workarounds
> > (either a host with two interfaces doing the routing, or replace with
> > Ray 2 and run the X4200 interface to a 100 Mb/s Cisco switch port).
> >
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