Thanks to Bernd and Herbert. Changes on the txqueuelen did address my problem although still feel confused about the tuntap configuration arguments---it seems no more docu on that:) On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:08 pm, you wrote: > ifconfig <name-of-your-tuntap-iface> txqueuelen 10 > > should do the trick. > > Actually, I just realised that these days the ethernet queue length > defaults to 1000. So if you were using a tap device that would definitely > be too much. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html