thus Eric Auge spake:
> Hello,
> 
> Ok here is another thought :
> 
> after some more measurements, and 2 box connected w/ a crosscable,
> I had a really strange big loss of a thousand packets, that are not
> reported even in the internal counters  (systat inet.ip 1 :run).
> 
> sending 10 000 000 udp packets at 40 000 p/s rate :
> 
> I'm speaking about internal counters only :
> 
> sender reports 10 000 000 packets sent
> received reports 9 993 728 (missing 6272)
> 
> and my udp server test code reports
> 6272 missing.
> 
> It doesn't happend all the time, just since i'm stress testing.
> 
> is it possible that the nic card drops packets before passing to the
> driver ? like too much interrupts etc.. ?(that would explain the
> "missing" number in internal counters) ?.
> 
> the nic card used on the server side is a realtek (rtk0).
> 
> Regards,
> Eric.

hm,

AFAIK rtk-based NICs are meant to be... er... not so good.

can you try with fxp or another known-good chipset?

just a thought...

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