Help! Network issue with freebsd + Xen

[Alex]

Hi Janne,

I don't know whether this is an issue with the "re" driver or something 
else that's affecting the "re" driver (the way Xen handles network 
traffic).  Though as far as I know, when a collision is detected, the 
behavior is for the sender to invoke it's backoff algorithm and to wait 
a set amount of time before transmitting again. if this is actually 
occurring then there would be performance degradation.

Would you mind adding your feedback on my PR up at freebsd.org just to 
let the "re" maintainer know it's not just me? The PR is 154236. Would 
Greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

On 26/01/11 17:59, Janne Snabb wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Alex wrote:
>
>> I am having an issue with high network interface collisions when running
>> freebsd under XEN (I am using freebsd as my OS for a VPS).
> [..]
>> whether they have seen the same issue or know what may be causing it.
> I can confirm seeing it here also, you are not alone:
>
> $ netstat -i
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs Idrop    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
> re0    1500<Link#1>       00:16:3e:08:b4:c7 21150230     0     0  4101045     0 4019323
> [..]
>
> I had not noticed it before. I am not encountering any packet loss
> or other networking problems. No idea about the reason.
>
> This is on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64 with GENERIC kernel.
>
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