<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 March 2016 at 16:12, Douglas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dclowes1@optusnet.com.au" target="_blank">dclowes1@optusnet.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>

  
    
  
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    On 03/03/16 21:25, Anthony Giggins wrote:
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On 3 March 2016 at 07:59, Will
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                        <div>are you seeing dropped packets though?</div>
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              <div>Yes. That was the whole point of this thread.  Really
                only noticeable with the HDHR at gigabit speeds though,
                due to no retransmission and UDP. <span></span></div>
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            <div>I've made some changes which appear on the surface to
              have improved things</div>
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          <div class="gmail_extra">$ ifconfig eth0 | grep "RX packets"</div>
          <div class="gmail_extra">          RX packets:31758537
            errors:0 dropped:21144 overruns:0 frame:0<br>
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          <div class="gmail_extra">the previous 21133 dropped packets
            was over 41.7GB of RX transfers</div>
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          <div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,</div>
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    I understood those 21144 dropped packets to be "driver reported".<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>RX packets:36957341 errors:0 dropped:21362 overruns:0 frame:0<br></div><div><br></div><div>Not sure but I'm seeing dramatically less now only 218 in the past 6 days during 21.9GB of RX transfers</div><div><br></div><div>ethtool can provide more detail although they dont seen to add up to what is shown by ifconfig</div><div><br></div><div>sudo ethtool -S eth0</div><div>NIC statistics:</div><div>     tx_packets: 151768191</div><div>     rx_packets: 624571455</div><div>     tx_errors: 0</div><div>     rx_errors: 146</div><div>     rx_missed: 46316</div><div>     align_errors: 9634</div><div>     tx_single_collisions: 0</div><div>     tx_multi_collisions: 0</div><div>     unicast: 610107915</div><div>     broadcast: 5826491</div><div>     multicast: 9739994</div><div>     tx_aborted: 0</div><div>     tx_underrun: 0</div><div> </div></div>Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Anthony</div></div>