> - Would the channel bonding code send the packets out of order [to cause > the problem you describe]? Yes it does, it is inherent in the algorithm it uses. If you don't believe me just send a stream of UDP packets with a sequence number and plot the result. > - I thought about packet drops as well, perhaps an SMP race condition? > We've noted that the error counts from ifconfig don't increment until a > slight increase at the end of the run, so it's not counting the problems if > they do occur. [had 22 overruns recorded after >1.5M packets transmitted & > received without any overruns! Overruns on one machine only, not both.] I doubt it is the problem. You of course made the TCP window big enough ? -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/