[Starlink] Packet losses in a router

[David Lang]

The first thing I would check is the buffer stats on the machines you are using 
to do the communication. When I'm doing UDP syslog traffic, I have far more 
issues with the endpoints dropping packets than with the network.

David Lang

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022, Ricky Mok via Starlink wrote:

> Couple plausible reasons that I encountered.
>
> e.g., the NIC on the host simply went bad.
>
> The cable (copper) got loose. Dirt may get into the fiber optics port.
>
> Ricky
>
> On 10/24/2022 1:13 PM, David Fernández via Starlink wrote:
>> Dear participants of this list,
>>
>> 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
>> of a few hundreds of bytes each one, during a test of 1 minute, at
>> only 50 packets/s using iperf2, I am sure that you would investigate
>> why, wouldn't you?
>>
>> Or it is not worth it? Just live with it?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any answer!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David
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