[CentOS] DROP packet in the network card

Fri Aug 31 10:44:02 UTC 2007
Robert Spangler <lazydog at zoominternet.net>

On Thu August 30 2007 16:06, ann kok wrote:

>  there is number in RX-DRP but RX-ERR is 0
>
>  ls it normal?
>
>  how is problem to make this RX-DRP

Normally not unless you buffer is full.  This happen when you receive packets 
faster then the kernel can process them.  I've seen this on servers that were 
connected at 1000.  The processor was so busy it couldn't keep up.  When we 
forced them to 100 the drops went away.


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Regards
Robert

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