Packet loss in a bridge

Anil Joshi aj27744 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 00:22:55 EST 2013


I have stopped the iptables and ip6tables service.
No rules are loaded in the machine.


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Anil Joshi <aj27744 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I have created a bridge on two nics on the same machine.
> > The machine having a bridge is an intermediate machine to send packets
> > across network.
> > I am seeing much packet loss in the intermediate machine (i think due to
> > bridge "brctl")
> >
> > How to avoid it?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Anil
>
> Could be anything.... kernel traffic control, too many iptables rules
> (AFAIK, too many iptables could slow down packet processing, thus can
> not cope with high burst) etc.
>
> I think better run tcpdump and save the result as pcap. Then load it
> in latest Wireshark. Maybe you can get better clues there.
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
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>
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