On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: [snip] > >I use the D-Link DFE570TX card in several routers here. And I don't use > >the regular tulipdriver, it has problems with high packetrates yes, mostly > >because of high irqloads. I use the NAPI enabled tulipdriver and I have no > >problem routing 64byte packets at wirespeed here (148.800pps). > > > If you enable CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL in 2.4.x, you pretty much get > NAPI tulip without the fancy name :) But.... It's the fancy name I want :)) Why live at all if you're not living on the edge? No seriously, NAPI is rock solid here, 27TB routed over 139 days on a 2 cpu SMP router (with iptables and conntrack...) I think it was 46 billion packets (looked at the stats this morning but sometimes I have as good memory as a goldfish) /Martin Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. - : 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
