On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 03:02:53PM -0600, Damir Cosic wrote:
>
> Test configuration:
>
> A B C
> +------+ +------+ +------+
> | |__net0__| |__net1__| |
> | | | | | |
> +------+ +------+ +------+
>
> A - Linux box running HTTP client (perl script which
> receives few files in an infinite loop).
> B - Linux box with two network interfaces, acting as a
> router/firewall
> C - Linux box running Apache
>
> I was actually trying to put B under really heavy load
> and see what happens - I expected to break my code.
> Since A is sending many requests (there is a child per
> file, and each of them is just running in a loop and
> receiving file that was assigned to it) I got traffic
> of about 1MByte/s. But, it wouldn't last too long.
> B's net0 interface would block and I wasn't able to
> ping any host on net0, although ifconfig wasn't showing
> anything strange - actually no change at all. After
> 'ifconfig eth0 down/up' everything would be fine again.
>
You forgot the say what cards and speeds you have where. "about" 1MBps seems
reasonable for a fully saturated 10bT link. if the cards in question are
eepro10 that looks like normal behaviour cause the cards are shite.
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