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
>> 
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