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Date:      Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:07:59 +0400
From:      "Nickolay A. Kritsky" <nkritsky@star-sw.com>
To:        sirola@fisica.unige.it
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: retransmissions with bge driver?
Message-ID:  <128144951281.20040809200759@star-sw.com>
In-Reply-To: <87llgo1gvi.fsf@statpro.com>
References:  <878ycoag8v.fsf@statpro.com> <78135817453.20040809173545@star-sw.com> <87llgo1gvi.fsf@statpro.com>

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Hello sirola,

Monday, August 09, 2004, 7:16:33 PM, sirola@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.

-- 
Best regards,
;  Nickolay A. Kritsky
; SysAdmin STAR Software LLC
; mailto:nkritsky@star-sw.com




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