retransmissions with bge driver?

Nickolay A. Kritsky nkritsky at star-sw.com
Mon Aug 9 09:08:02 PDT 2004


Hello sirola,

Monday, August 09, 2004, 7:16:33 PM, sirola at fisica.unige.it wrote:

sfui> Hi Nickolay,

sfui> thanks for the tip, it works now. What could be the reason for the NIC
sfui>  working in half-duplex mode?

Well, in short it looks like mbufs in the switch are getting filled too
fast, what results in random packet drops. Another thing that can help
is, perhaps, `flow-control' feature on the switch. But it is more
complicated, and so, from technical POV is less preferrable.

-- 
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;  Nickolay A. Kritsky
; SysAdmin STAR Software LLC
; mailto:nkritsky at star-sw.com




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