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ifconfig eth0 RX dropped packets

The problem The ifconfig command shows more and more dropped packets in the RX section. So, there seem to be a problem to some packets arriving from the Internet to my server. The questions What kind of packets does this drop counter takes into…
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Tcpdump on ec2 not seeing all packets

I'm running tcpdump on an Amazon EC2 instance to monitor HTTP traffic going to Nginx (this is just a test box, the only resource is the example test page). Running tcpdump with the command # tcpdump -vn -i any port 80 shows the packets from a…
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How do I fake dropped packets (or actually make them fail)?

Background One of our clients suffers from an intermittant problem with their internet where it will drop packets when a user downloads a large file (their IT is looking into the problem). I have an application consisting of a Web Server running…
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How does an Access Point handle broadcast packets from the wired side?

I have an Cisco AP 1242AG autonomous AP connected to L2 switches. Let's say I have 100 wired devices each sending 2 broadcast UDP packets per second. Obviously these packets will reach the Access Point switch port, but will the AP actually send…
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Drop fragmented packets in nftables

Using iptables is it possible to block fragmented packets with this rule: iptables -A INPUT -f -j DROP But there isn't a equivalent in nftables. There is any way to do it?
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Need help understanding capturing from Wireshark?

I am having issues with my FTP servers. Connecting, sending and receiving fail sometimes, and it is not consistent. I manage to capture and filter by IP the packets, I just need pointers on what can I do from there as I don't fully understand the…
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Percona: Got an error writing communication packets

Since a few days, two of our php-applications (symfony2) are reporting the following errors in mysql-logs: [Warning] Aborted connection 253 to db: '$appname' user: '$appname' host: 'localhost' (Got an error writing communication packets) One or two…
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UDP. Sending speed is limited by the minimal Ethernet adapter configuration

I have 1Gbit Ethernet adapter on my computer. And I have the other computer with Ethernet adapter 100Mbit. The both in one LAN and connected through the 1Gbit switch. 1 Test: I try to send from my computer(1Gbit) to the other(100Mbit) the packets by…
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when should I raise an alarm if I see dropped packets ( packet_in or packet_out)

I am trying to create a simple anomaly alarm detection by looking at the KPI of my Linux servers. I was wondering when should I flag an alarm if see dropped packets ( both packet_in and/or packet_out). If I take a percentage total packets…
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Arista switch - Forward multicast traffic from vlan to vlan on different switch ports with different subsets

I have an Arista DCS-7150S-24-R I got a cross connect from provider X into port #1 (port marked as vlan 100) I got a linux host connected to to the switch at port #2 (port marked as vlan 200) Ports are on different subnets. Port #1 receives…
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Proving packets per second bottleneck?

I have a '100Mb' network connection that's currently consistently transmitting at about 20K packets/sec, irrespective of packet size in the range of 300-600 bytes. This yields an observed bandwidth of 25-98Mb. I'm constantly being told that…
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Packets being routed to the wrong IP

Looked around, can't find a similar issue anywhere... I have been having some very strange and hard to explain problems on my network lately, and in my efforts to find the cause, I came across an interesting discovery, which I am struggling to…
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Apache Instance in Private Subnet not returning packets

How can we get the Apache instance in a private subnet to work? Configuration Public subnet with 1 NAT instance Private subnet with 1 App instance Details 1. Masquerading is turned on NAT on via iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j…
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PHP-FPM slowlog and Mysql lost connection

I was having an issue with PHP-FPM and mysql. When I needed to process an input file that would generate several selects/inserts/updates for each line, it would stop after approximately 60s with message Lost connection to the server or Mysql server…
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is there such a thing as "too many packets per second"?

we have 2 offices in separate buildings. there is an ethernet link between the two. The link is provided by the company that manages one of the buildings, and they provide us with 100Mbps bandwidth over ethernet cable (actually it passes as a vlan…
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