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From: "Gáspár Lajos" <swifty@freemail.hu>
To: Vasantha Kumar Puttappa <vasanthakumar@iitb.ac.in>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Packets lost
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:59:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4651C1EB.8090004@freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1845.10.107.26.27.1179384883.squirrel@gpo.iitb.ac.in>

Vasantha Kumar Puttappa írta:
> Hi Lajos,
>  Thanks for responding so fast. I did try adding the forward rule, but
> still packets are missing.
>  Let me give you more insight into what I am trying do.
>  I have a vitrual network interface and 2 physical network interface (one
> Ethernet based, and other 802.11 based). The virtual network interface
> dynamically binds to any one of the above physical interfaces for packet
> transmission. The issue of packet loss occurs **only** during link
> switching.
>   
What is this "link switching" in real ? What about routing and source 
addresses ?
> I feel that the following issues might be the possible reasons for the
> packet loss.
>
> 1. Due to missing soft_IRQ interrupt for packets and hence packet loss ( i
> have no proof to back this)
> 2. Due to incompatible wireless device driver.
>
>
> Any thoughts on this ?
>   
What if you use a bridge on those three and the condition extension of 
iptables?

Swifty



      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-21 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-16 13:07 Packets lost Vasantha Kumar Puttappa
2007-05-16 14:48 ` Gáspár Lajos
2007-05-17  6:54   ` Vasantha Kumar Puttappa
2007-05-21 15:59     ` Gáspár Lajos [this message]

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