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Subject: Re: hidden interface (ARP) 2.4.20
From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
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On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 13:08, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:

> This is unfortunately not sufficient, not even close to. If you really want to
> have a good idea what is going on you should as well check out what is happening
> with packet sizes a lot smaller than 1500 (normal mtu). Check data rate an
> packet loss with packet sizes around 80 bytes or so to get an idea what bothers
> us :-)

VoIP? :-)

Have you tried those tests with the NAPI network drivers patch? my
experience has been that interrupt live lock is what's hitting you
really hard in the scenarios you described and the NAPI network drivers
patch id supposed to fix that. 


Gilad



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