I have replaced NIC's as I thought it might of been the drives also. I moved to the eepro100 cards. Same problem.
What kernel are you using? I have tried 2.4.19 and 2.4.22. > I'm running the same scenario here on a ppro 200 except that I'm using > 2x3c905btxm cards for the briding instead of the one dual card. If I > flush all firewall rules i get a throuput of about 95MBit with a > cpu-load of constantly under 8%. With all firewall rules i get about > 85MBit and the cpu-load is far away from 50%. The bottleneck is the > memory timing. > Have you tried your setup with two nics as well? I would suggest the > problem is the NIC or the driver therefor. > > Cheers, > Michael > > > Simon Allard schrieb: > > > I have setup a linux box with a 2.4.19 kernel. I am bridging 2 ethernet > > devices together using 3Com PCI 3c982 Dual Port cards. (3c59x). > > > > What I am seeing is that the module itself uses 30% of CPU to handle just > > 10mbit both ways (20mbit total). ~6000ps total. From what I have read on > > the bridge homepages I should be able to run this on a 486 as CPU has > > nothing to do with it. What am I doing wrong? > > > > > > bridge:~# brctl show > > bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces > > br0 8000.000475c9a6f9 yes eth1 > > eth2 > > > > > > bridge:~# lsmod > > Module Size Used by Not tainted > > limiter 13064 0 (unused) > > bridge 16748 1 > > 3c59x 25512 2 > > sis900 12388 1 > > > > > > > > bridge:~# cat /etc/modules > > # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. > > # > > # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are > > # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with > > # a #, and everything on the line after them are ignored. > > sis900 > > 3c59x options=4,4,4,4 full_duplex=1,1,1,1 max_interrupt_work=10000 > > bridge > > limiter > > > > > > in /etc/network/interfaces > > auto eth1 > > iface eth1 inet loopback > > > > auto eth2 > > iface eth2 inet loopback > > > > # Bridge Interface for eth1 + eth2 > > auto br0 > > iface br0 inet loopback > > pre-up brctl addbr br0 > > up brctl addif br0 eth1 > > up brctl addif br0 eth2 > > up brctl stp br0 on > > down brctl delif br0 eth1 > > down brctl delif br0 eth2 > > post-down brctl delbr br0 > > > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone have any ideas off the top of your head what could be > > causing this or be able to point me in the right direction for some > > documentation relating to this problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > Simon Allard (Senior Tool Monkey) > > IHUG > > Ph (09) 358-5067 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message..... > > > > > > Simon Allard (Senior Tool Monkey) IHUG Ph (09) 358-5067 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message..... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
