If WinPcap doesn't report any drops, the problem may be in the lower layers
(i.e. NIC or NIC driver). The first step to locate it is probably trying
with a different network card and see what happens.

Loris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric St.John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:35 AM
Subject: [WinPcap-users] Mysterious Packet Loss using Packet library


I'm using the packet library to capture an incoming 35 MB/s stream of
udp packets to directly to a 1GB array in physical memory with minimal
processing (CPU usage is nowhere near max).
After extensive testing and tuning of buffer sizes(PacketSetBuff() and
PacketInitPacket()), I was able to obtain 99.993% packet integrity.  The
WinPcap Packet library statistics claims 0 packet loss, but on analysis
of packet data I find that the system is indeed losing packets in groups
of about 25-35 at a nearly constant period of  2.22956 s � 0.000043 s.
The total loss is 370 of 734060 1.5 KB packets.
Any ideas on what can be causing this?  It seems like a glass cieling: I
see this same behavior on a number of different buffer size combinations.
Thanks,
Eric


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