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Subject: Re: Res: Dropped Packets
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Lorenz Helleis wrote:
> everthing was ok until we start tomake backups passing through the firewall.  
What sort of 'backups', using what exactly ?

Did you monitor the input Q drop figure from

	net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops

before during and after the service impacting traffic ?

Do you capture interface statistics using something like Cacti ?

Some idea of packet forwarding rate, before during and after would be 
useful.


Regards

Greg