A Bit Miffed - Page 2

snide · June 20th, 2006, 1:56 PM

I believe that dropped packets are incoming packets routed to /dev/null by iptables or a similar process.

**Skipdawg** · June 20th, 2006, 1:59 PM

Learn a little more about this mystery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_loss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service

snide · June 20th, 2006, 2:10 PM

That is a good entry. I am clear now that the dropped packets are seen from both sides, not just on the received side as I originally thought.

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Many things that can happen to packets as they travel from origin to destination and they result in the following problems, as seen from the point of view of the sender and receiver:

* dropped packets - the routers might fail to deliver (drop) some packets if they arrive when their buffers are already full...

**deastwood** · June 20th, 2006, 4:04 PM

cheers guys you lot are legends!

**Skipdawg** · June 20th, 2006, 4:23 PM

Yepper you got it.

Tweaking your internet connection for optimization can help a little but in most cases it is rather little help that is dose.

One of the biggest factors that affects it can be internet congestion (latency) which you just can not control.

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Skipdawg Insanely Super #1 Joined in Jul 2005 Lives in Northwest USA 4,154 posts Gave thanks: 39 Thanked 78 times	Learn a little more about this mystery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_loss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service __________________

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Skipdawg Insanely Super #1 Joined in Jul 2005 Lives in Northwest USA 4,154 posts Gave thanks: 39 Thanked 78 times	Yepper you got it. Tweaking your internet connection for optimization can help a little but in most cases it is rather little help that is dose. One of the biggest factors that affects it can be internet congestion (latency) which you just can not control. __________________

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