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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:21:29 -0800
From:      Prafulla Deuskar <pdeuskar@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jason Carroll <jason@carrollgroup.org>
Subject:   Re: Trouble with gigabit cards
Message-ID:  <20021107112129.A8657@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021107134624.A14591-100000@digitas.harvard.edu>; from jecarrol@digitas.harvard.edu on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:50:33PM -0500
References:  <20021105181641.C78733@hub.freebsd.org> <20021107134624.A14591-100000@digitas.harvard.edu>

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If you don't want to go the sysctl route

Change IFQ_MAXLEN to something reasonable in
/usr/src/sys/net/if.h and recompile the kernel.

There was discussion on net.inet.ip.intr_queue values
recently on -net. So you might want to go through that thread. 

Thanks,
Prafulla

Jason Carroll [jecarrol@digitas.harvard.edu] wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the slow reply; one of my email addresses seems to get rejected
> by freebsd.org.
> 
> It seems like net.inet.ip.intr_queue counts exactly the packets that are
> dropped.  I set the ...maxlen variable that appears to go with it up to
> 200 (from 50), and this seems to have solved the problem.  Any guidelines
> for reasonable values?  Is there some way I can set this in the kernel
> other than by using sysctl?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> Jason Carroll
> 
>  On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Prafulla Deuskar wrote:
> 
> > What does sysctl net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops show?
> >
> 

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