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Message-Id: <20130925.144640.1661224048195310923.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:46:40 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: David.Laight@...LAB.COM Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: rx_dropped count for USB ethernet interfaces From: "David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:22:38 +0100 > However it looks as though Linux is also counting rx_dropped if the packet > can't be delivered to a protocol (at the end of __netif_receive_skb). This is expected and correct behavior. > I suspect that DHCP is getting a copy of every packet (that can't > help network performance?) This is a long standing and well known issue. The problem is that it used to be the case that before you put an IP address on an interface, you couldn't even receive broadcast UDP frames on a UDP socket. So all DHCP implementations use AF_PACKET sockets in promiscuous mode to deal with this. These days you can actually receive broadcast frames on an interface which hasn't had an IP assigned to it yet, due to some routing check changes that were made a few years ago, but this support obviously not present in older kernels. Compound this with the pain that it would take to adjust all the various DHCP implementations to not only support this, but have the fallback code too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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