Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:52:26 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange results with increased net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011012144947.07264b50@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <200110121842.f9CIgAI21150@iguana.aciri.org> References: <20011012143302.A8938@ddm.wox.org>
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At 11:42 AM 10/12/01 -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > If you find yourself hitting the queue limit I'd suggest using RED or
> > GRED with ipfw to drop packets more intelligently before the hard limit
>
>we are talking about a different queue here, which is not managed by
>ipfw (now you are actually giving me an idea on adding this
>feature...)
Speaking about ipfw, am I better off performance wise going to ipfilter ?
Or do you think ipfw is more efficient ?
Also, I am going to swap in an athlon 1.4G with DDR RAM in place of the
celeron 866. I am curious to see how just changing the hardware will
effect the rate of packet drops. If it is resource related I should see a
difference.
---Mike
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