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From: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:11:11 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] Performance loss with bridging+routing.
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n.egi@lancaster.ac.uk said:
> Has anyone had similar experience or I'm doing something wrong when
> combining bridging and routing?  If this is a normal behaviour could
> anyone tell me where and why the packets got dropped? Or why the
> performance loss occurs?
>
> Any suggestions are very welcome.

I would try using oprofile to see where the most time is being spent.

Jason