In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10110140949430.703-100000@vaio.greennet> you wrote: > Isn't that the desired effect? > Specifically: dropping packets is sometimes the correct way to indicate > TCP congestion. Yes, but the question is, if polling on high load situations genrally isnt a very good option to increase throughput and decrrease system load. Obviously for one machine/nic combination it helps. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html