[vortex] network slow w/25% Broadcasts
Andrew Morton
andrewm@uow.edu.au
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:23:47 +1100
Kjartan Fannberg wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Let's do it the other way round for better "relevance filtering":
>
> Question:
>
> Does/can a data:broadcast frame ratio of about 3:1 (sending, along with 5%
> multicast and a few collisions) hint at a specific problem?
Not really. This driver handles multicast by going promiscuous, so
there will be some extra load...
> Background:
>
I does sound like duplex problems. Try to find a consistent,
repeatable failure and send us the output of vortex-diag
and mii-diag, as described in
http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/vortex.txt
Thanks.