packet loss

[Brecht Vermeulen]

Hi,

and did you try Eddie's answer to your previous question ?
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/click/ml/click/msg02004.html

(not sure if that is the problem though)

regards,
Brecht

Shilpi Agarwal wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   i did a small experiment to check the maximum packet handling rate.
> 
> I have two machines running click.
> 
> On one machine i have
> UDPsource and in other machine i just have
> 
> PollDevice(eth0,true)
> ->Counter
> ->Discard;
> 
> The two nodes are connected via switch.
> 
> Now i am sending 100,0000 packets at a rate of 100 thousand pps but at the sink
> i never receive all packets .Counter always show around 996138.
> even if i reduce the sending rate to 20 thousand pps still i am not receiving
> all the packets . At 20 thousand pps i could receive only 996181 packets.
> 
> does anyone have an idea why i am loosing packets??
> 
> Thanks
> Shilpi
> 
> 
> 
> Shilpi Agarwal
> Graduate Student
> Dept of Electrical Engineering
> University of Wisconsin
> Madison-53706
> phone:608-233-3714