This sounds a lot like the problem last year in MAE-East before they upgraded to FDDI. A bug in *many* hardware implementations dropped packets if the interpacket arrival time was too small (even though the inbterpacket spacing was within spec.) I don't recall anyone ever fixing the problem tho' It even affected several sniffers so they would not see the packets, and hence not record the drop.... Larry Plato

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No, it's not a Sun issue, it drops every other packet only if I got over the ATM Backbone. I can trace to another router, a ATM Switch, A CSU panel, anything and I get the same dropped packet. I did further testing, and it is every other packet, not just the middle one.

Looks like Solaris has the same bug as the ATM link you described. I see every other packet dropped by a Solaris box on my ethernet but not by a linux box on the same ethernet.

Sanjay.

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