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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Dummynet kernel messages
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 06:17:39 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <36B7F0E6.A913BCBA@scn.ru> from "Vladimir N. Kovalev" at Feb 3, 99 01:46:44 pm
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>                    Hello !
> I have a lot of such messages in my /var/log/messages:
> Feb  2 16:18:57 ns /kernel: -- dummynet: drop from pipe 3, have 100 pks, 77532 bytes
> 
> Anybody knows what does this message mean ?
> Is this a report about lost a packets ?
> How I can prevent it ?

it is just a report about a queue becoming full -- a normal event. This
should be only generated (unless i am mistaken) when the sysctl
variable net.inet.ip.dummynet.debug is set to a non-zero value, by
default it should be zero.

	luigi

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