From owner-freebsd-atm Tue May 21 11:13: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org Received: from proton.hexanet.fr (proton.hexanet.fr [81.23.32.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F01B37B407 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 11:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hexanet.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by proton.hexanet.fr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g4LICpC42438; Tue, 21 May 2002 20:12:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 20:12:51 +0200 From: Christophe Prevotaux To: mark tinguely Cc: atm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hfa0 PCA200E more informations [Help] Message-Id: <20020521201251.78f31ea3.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> In-Reply-To: <200205211801.g4LI1Xc05611@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> References: <20020521193003.7c17be5c.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> <200205211801.g4LI1Xc05611@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> Organization: HEXANET Sarl X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.4) X-NCC-RegID: fr.hexanet Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org First of all , thank you for your answer. On Tue, 21 May 2002 13:01:33 -0500 (CDT) mark tinguely wrote: > > I do not have much experience with this card, and it is frustrating > to not have the ability to filter the packets at the device level. > > The thing that comes to mind is the possiblity of a transmission > error at the SUNI (sonet user/network interface) or cable level. > The SUNI not sending transmission complete interrupts would explain > the full transmission queue. I would think a cabling problem would > return more error in delievery errors. I know this is not a cabling problem since extensive attenuation tests have been performed on the fiber with very good results. > > The only thing I can think of saying is possibly having an interrupt > counter(s) that could be read using "sysctl". When things start "backing up" > in the transmission queue you can see if this counter is increasing. > something like Yes I agree however I think winter@jurai.net or you would have to give me patch so I don't break things up while testing or trying to test the thing because I am not a programmer unfortunately (as I previously stated :)) > > static int foreintc = 0; > SYSCTL_INT(_net_forehfa, OID_AUTO, foreintc, CTLFLAG_RD, > &foreintc, 0, "count of Fore Interrupts"); > > somewhere in code that you want to count add: > foreintc++; > > and on the command line something like follow would read the value: > > $ sysctl net.forefha.foreintc > > printf for each transmission interrupt would be too extreme. > > --mark. > -- =============================================================== Christophe Prevotaux Email: c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr HEXANET SARL URL: http://www.hexanet.fr/ Z.A.C Les Charmilles Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 3 Allée Thierry Sabine Direct: +33 (0)3 26 79 08 02 BP202 Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 51686 Reims Cedex 2 FRANCE HEXANET Network Operation Center =============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message