Thanks for your reply. > > > It is not a bridge problem, just that bridging puts more stress on the > network driver. Yep, i really suspected it was something with the 3com card. Found something on the bridge FAQ regarding 3com cards (setting interrupt_work=10000). If you have additional options such as indicated on the bridge FAQ available that you know or links that discuss this please let me know. > > The problem is that the 3c905 cards don't support interrupt mitigation, > so when lots > of network traffic hits, they drop data. The 3c59x driver allocates and > copies every > received frame in the interrupt routine. What is needed is a new driver > that does NAPI > (any volunteers)? would you know of any network card that can work as a bridge and at the same time has NAPI drivers? -- Cheers, Paul P. Pongco Mosaic Communications Inc. - : 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
