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From: Ricky Mok <cskpmok@caida.org>
To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Packet losses in a router
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 14:15:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3810e66c-5107-a15c-20aa-44a893393a21@caida.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=tZ0rJJkhbi7jVR7LO4+Mj4PpvdY2D6RSK2b3s2Ni2UwaR_A@mail.gmail.com>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-24 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-24 20:13 David Fernández
2022-10-24 20:22 ` Jeff Tantsura
2022-10-25  9:30   ` David Fernández
2022-10-24 20:54 ` Gert Doering
2022-10-24 21:15 ` Ricky Mok [this message]
2022-10-24 21:21   ` David Lang
2022-11-04 12:54 David Fernández
2022-11-05 12:05 ` Gert Doering
2022-11-07  8:34   ` David Fernández

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