On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:54:44 +0000 (UTC), in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you
wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> It's possible to increase the TCP and UDP buffers ?
>>
>> I've had problems with UDP packets of 64 bytes discarded with a bandwith
>> of 2-3 Mbits, using a FreeBSD-4.3 router in a link of 10 Mbits.
>
>a router does not buffer through traffic in a socket buffer (which is
>what "TCP and UDP buffers" are) but on the interface queues and ipintrq,
>which are typically 50 packets.
>If this is the case you should see ipintrq drops listed
>with
>
> sysctl net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops
>
>and you could try to increase the size of that queue with something like
>
> sysctl -w net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen=100
Hi,
Are there any nasty side effects for increasing this value ? Also, how
would one go about tracking down why net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops is
incrementing ?
---Mike
Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sentex Communications Corp,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)
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