On Jul 4, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: > We're running a few 8.1-R servers with Broadcom bce interfaces (Dell R510) > and I'm seeing occasional packet loss on them (enough that it trips nagios > now and then). Cabling seems fine as neither the switch nor the sysctl info > for the device show any errors/collisions/etc, however there is one odd one, > which is "dev.bce.1.stat_IfHCInBadOctets: 539369". See [1] below for full > sysctl output. The switch shows no errors but for "Dropped packets 683868".
A quick check of the #'s is showing an error rate of 8.6e-6, or about one byte out of 100,000. That's much better than what TCP/IP and ethernet were designed for. At a guess, your box or the switch occasionally gets busy enough that it drops a few packets now and again. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
