On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:39:15AM +0100, Steve Fosdick wrote:
Looking at eth0 there is a transmit queue of 100 so it looks like the kernel is routing packets to the right interface but the interface is not sending them.
red herring, it doesn't show how many packets are waiting to go out the interface more how many can be buffered (actually this is more likely to be how many ethernet frames than tcp/ip packets also) from the ifconfig man page.
txqueuelen length Set the length of the transmit queue of the device. It is useful to set this to small values for slower devices with a high latency (modem links, ISDN) to prevent fast bulk transfers from disturbing inter active traffic like telnet too much.
Adam