From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:47:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:47:02 -0400 Received: from to-velocet.redhat.com ([216.138.202.10]:5360 "EHLO touchme.toronto.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:47:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:47:02 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: ET Sales Cc: nick@snowman.net, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Loosing packets with Dlink DFE-580TX and SMC 9462TX Message-ID: <20020606184702.E12341@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020606091713.021f0730@mail.etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:21:50AM -0400, ET Sales wrote: > At 07:56 PM 6/3/02 -0400, you wrote: > > Uh..aren't those 32-bit cards? There isn't enough bus bandwidth on a 32bit > PCI bus to do gigabit, so its more likely that the cards are overrunning > their buffers.... 32 bit cards are okay for most applications that don't use all bandwidth in both directions. Also, if overruns occur, recent versions of ns83820.c do update the error counts in /proc/net/dev. -ben