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From: "Jonathan Earle" <jearle@nortelnetworks.com>
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Subject: RE: How to optimize routing performance
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> > Or are you saying that the bottleneck is somewhere
> > else completely,
> 
> Indeed. The bottleneck is with processing the incoming network
> packets, at the interrupt level.

Where is the counter for these dropped packets?  If we run a few mbit of
traffic through the box, we see noticeble percentages of lost packets (via
stats from the Ixia traffic generator).  But where in Linux are these counts
stored?  ifconfig does not appear to have the #.

Cheers!
Jon
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