does if_vr export true packet error statistics?

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Tue Jul 27 15:01:57 UTC 2010


Hi, Lev--

On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
>    I   have   huge   losses ("netstat -s -p tcp" shows 4% of packets, but
> 35% of bytes are retransmitted) on my intenret connection, which is PPPoE over
> 100Mbit  ehternet  link.

This description means larger packets are having problems.  Have you adjusted MTU and MRU down to 1492 (or possibly smaller like 1488 or 1480) since PPPoE is in use?

An MTU-aware traceroute or something like http://www.dslreports.com/tweak might be informative.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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