Chris Friesen wrote:
> I've been doing some testing on 2.4.18 and I'm seeing an interesting problem.
>
> I have a test tool that simulates bursty UDP traffic by sending a bunch of
> messages and then delaying a while. If I leave the receiving udp socket at its
> normal size, then I can get a significant number of messages just vanishing
> between the ethernet driver and the userspace socket. The driver rx count shows
> that all packets were received, but the userspace program doesn't get all of
> them. netstat/ifconfig/iproute2 rx dropped counts do not increase.
>
> Is this design intent, are we messing a counter increment when dropping packets,
> or am I not looking at the right counter for these numbers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
-- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear@excite.com> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/