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On Tuesday 20 June 2006 13:27, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 03:17, Mihir Sevak wrote: |
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> > Hello everybody, |
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> > I am running Gentoo AMD - 64 machine as a bridge. Unfortunately |
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> > when i receive huge # |
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> > of packets (hundreds of thousands of bits / sec) it seems that i am |
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> > dropping some of the packets totally. I am using IPTraf for monitoring |
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> > my traffic. |
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> > So either the information being displayed is wrong or there is |
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> > something in linux kernel which is dropping (buffering and loosing) |
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> > the packets. |
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> |
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> Probably the information is right. A critical point is actually what kind |
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> of interface you have. Be aware that a gigabit ethernet port has only |
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> marginally less bandwith than a pci bus |
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> (http://www.acme.com/build_a_pc/bandwidth.html). If you use the system as a |
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> bridge (2 cards) that means that you cannot sustain the 1gbs bandwith and |
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> will drop packets (even with a single card you will, because the pci bus is |
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> used for more than the network card). The solution would be to use a pci |
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> express system. |
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> |
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> Paul |
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Yah,either PCI Express or PCI-X, which, at least for 64-bit 133MHz, has gobs |
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more bandwidth presently than PCI Express. |
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