Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Jun 2002 22:03:24 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: packets being dropped in IP stack but no error counts incrementing? |
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I am not sure the UDP drop counters are available. If you do find them, I'm interested in them too!
Chris Friesen wrote:
> I've been doing some testing on 2.4.18 and I'm seeing an interesting problem. > > I have a test tool that simulates bursty UDP traffic by sending a bunch of > messages and then delaying a while. If I leave the receiving udp socket at its > normal size, then I can get a significant number of messages just vanishing > between the ethernet driver and the userspace socket. The driver rx count shows > that all packets were received, but the userspace program doesn't get all of > them. netstat/ifconfig/iproute2 rx dropped counts do not increase. > > Is this design intent, are we messing a counter increment when dropping packets, > or am I not looking at the right counter for these numbers? > > Thanks, > > Chris > >
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