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Subject: Re: [Starlink] Packet losses in a router
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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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