[Starlink] Packet losses in a router

[David Fernández]

FYI: The issue with packet losses was solved after the router was
properly synchronized using NTP, reaching up to 100 pps during 60 s
without losses and latency < 20 ms.

> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:30:31 +0200
> From: David Fernández <davidfdzp at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Starlink] Packet losses in a router
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> Well, asking for a friend. I will let you know the outcome, if any.
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> I have confirmed with your answers what I was suspecting, that this is
> not normal (acceptable), even though probably you can live with it.
>
> Thanks!
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> 2022-10-24 22:22 GMT+02:00, Jeff Tantsura <jefftant at gmail.com>:
>> If this is a 1G interface, dropping 1 packet out of (50 * 60) and with
>> load
>> below 10%, something is really wrong (I assume you are not doing SW
>> switching?)
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>> Cheers,
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>> Jeff
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>> From: David Fernández via Starlink
>> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2022 1:13 PM
>> To: starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net
>> Subject: [Starlink] Packet losses in a router
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>> Dear participants of this list,
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>> If you had a router that in lab conditions, with Gigabit Ethernet
>>
>> interfaces, that losses 1 or 2 out of a few thousands of UDP packets
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>> of a few hundreds of bytes each one, during a test of 1 minute, at
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>> only 50 packets/s using iperf2, I am sure that you would investigate
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>> why, wouldn't you?
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>> Or it is not worth it? Just live with it?
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>> Thank you in advance for any answer!
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>> Regards,
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>> David
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