MPD Issues - Errors and Mysterious Packet Loss

[Michael Bretterklieber]

Hi,

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Dan Hardiker wrote:
> Ive now hit a barrier I just cant cross without help. Theres nothing out on
> the net and every where I go they point to this newsgroup / mailing list.
> Here it goes...
>
> I have setup MPD to be best of my ability and am getting intermitant packet
> loss (only with mpd, pinging through when not connected to the vpn works
> beautifully).I think the root of the problem lies in a non reported issue.
>
> When I connect to the VPN I get a connection status box in my XP sys tray.
> If I open that up I get a list of bytes sent and received, as well as the
> compression % and number of errors. Compression is always 0% even through I
> tell mpd to use compression and have checked its enabled in the VPN
> connection settings.
MPD (netgraph) doesen't support compression, because it's proprietary and
patentet, if you realy wan't to have compression (=STAC Compression) then
you have to buy the sources from www.hifn.com, but usualy you don't need
compression.

>
> If I sit the machine pinging the LAN IP of the MPD server when connected to
> the VPN, I start racking up lots of errors. Ive only been pinging for 15
> mins and the errors is up to 58. Unfortunatly it doesnt tell me WHAT those
> errors are, or where to start looking to resolve them.
>
> The short of it is that the VPN works, but its paralysingly slow (throughput
> has been logged via trafshow as being 300 bytes > 3k a sec on a 256kbit ADSL
> upstream ... averaging mostly around 300-400 bps) and could really do with
> some pointers as to where to start looking.
>
can you please post you configuration and mpd's logfile?

bye,
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