Hi, Thanks a lot for your message.
> Look at sysctl net.inet.ip.ifq, bump maxlen until drops stops > increasing. I'd try 250 for starters. I followed your suggestion. It did help to reduce the frequency of this kind of event. The drops seem to have stopped at 300. net.inet.ip.ifq.len=0 net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=300 net.inet.ip.ifq.drops=0 However, the problem did not go away altogether. I would like to know if it has anything to do with the "memory" or "state mismatch" statistics below: # pfctl -si Status: Enabled for 2 days 01:50:25 Debug: Urgent Interface Stats for sk0 IPv4 IPv6 Bytes In 75871531127 0 Bytes Out 43600578884 64 Packets In Passed 85942323 0 Blocked 136001 0 Packets Out Passed 71218283 1 Blocked 11063 0 State Table Total Rate current entries 3029 searches 315805379 1760.1/s inserts 3676897 20.5/s removals 3673868 20.5/s Counters match 4838591 27.0/s bad-offset 0 0.0/s fragment 276 0.0/s short 11 0.0/s normalize 11 0.0/s memory 131423 0.7/s bad-timestamp 0 0.0/s congestion 0 0.0/s ip-option 0 0.0/s proto-cksum 7912 0.0/s state-mismatch 26192 0.1/s state-insert 84 0.0/s state-limit 0 0.0/s src-limit 0 0.0/s synproxy 15113 0.1/s Kind regards, Jeff. -- We've Got Your Name at http://www.mail.com! Get a FREE E-mail Account Today - Choose From 100+ Domains