On 09/07/2010 04:16 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:

> I'm investigating an issue where under load we eventually suddenly stop
> receiving packets.  We're sending out packets, I can see the reply being
> sent with tcpdump on other hosts, but we never receive the reply.  The
> driver doesn't complain about loss of carrier (and doesn't indicate
> dropped packets), and instrumentation that I added reports the LINKS
> register as having the value 0x744bef00.

Just thought I'd update this with the fact that we've reproduced this
several times on another blade and two out of three times the LINKS
register had the value 0x744bef80 as expected (which seems to blow my
theory out of the water), but the third time it too had the value
0x744bef00.

Chris


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Chris Friesen
Software Developer
GENBAND
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www.genband.com

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