Group: comp.os.linux.networking
From: buck
Date: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Any way to eliminate bonding interface dropped packets?

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:36:32 -0700 (PDT), Yong Huang
wrote:

>$ ifconfig bond1
>bond1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:78:58:F4:9C
> inet addr:192.168.2.11 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:
>255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::21b:78ff:fe58:f49c/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:150304549 errors:0 dropped:52 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:148948403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:111541084012 (103.8 GiB) TX bytes:109717011822
>(102.1 GiB)
>Thanks.
>
>Yong Huang

I know nothing of bonding, but can you set txqueuelen (anywhere, not
just on bond1)? The zero size says there is no buffer. This probably
won't help because RX is the problem, but I've had some (small)
success with other devices that have no buffer by setting txqueuelen
to 1000.
--
buck

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