Scott it is possible that the flow control slows down a link, but in your case it just stops. If you want you can try with these commands to see if something changes: ethtool -A dna0 autoneg off ethtool -A dna0 off ethtool -A dna0 tx off
Alfredo On Nov 30, 2011, at 1:07 AM, Scott L wrote: > Alfredo, > > We looked at the statistics produced by our switch and discovered that > when pfcount stops reporting received packets, we start seeing Pause > frames from the Silicom NIC. This would account for the fact that we > stop seeing packets. Have you seen this issue before? Any idea how > we might resolve it? > > =s= > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Alfredo Cardigliano > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Scott >> actually we recommend kernels > 2.6.18 with vanilla PF_RING, not with DNA. >> However 2.6.31 should be fine. >> Upgrading to a newer version is not a bad idea, if possible. Currently we >> are mainly using 2.6.36 and newer kernels. >> A asked you about 32/64bit just because there was an old 32bit dna library >> in svn. >> >> Regards >> Alfredo >> > _______________________________________________ > Ntop-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc _______________________________________________ Ntop-misc mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-misc
