From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261206AbUKSAXT (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:23:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261168AbUKSAUc (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:20:32 -0500 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:12952 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261214AbUKSATk (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:19:40 -0500 Message-ID: <419D3F70.5090104@devicelogics.com> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:33:52 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Linux 2.6.9 pktgen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Utility is very good for traffic generation, however, you may wish to consider adding a parameter to increase tx_queue_len for the device underneath if you choose to inject traffic from multiple sources into the device for testing. With the tx_queue_len set to defaults, I see a lot of traffic from above getting dropped when tests are running. I have had to increase this number to 60000 to get around certain test scenarios. Just a suggestion. Jeff