UDP Lost Packets

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Sat Mar 9 14:22:49 CET 2019


On Mar 9, 2019, at 4:01 AM, Oscar <oscar at jofre.com> wrote:
> But there are some (10 or so) cliens that are losing always udp packets and
> arround 10% of request are lost. And also
> 
> Form this locations some days the lost packets from that lacations increase
> to 100% .

  UDP is lossy, but that's a bit ridiculous. 

> I can solve this routing the radius to a VPN directly from the router to the
> radius server and the 0% of lost packets.

  That's likely the best solution then.

> And I really sure that the problem is that on some clients the packets are
> lost probably by the fragmentation of the udp packet that get lost.

  Yes.

> Anyone know if there is something I can do to improve this ? I've tried to
> change MTU on mikrotik but not success.

  Changing the MTU doesn't change the UDP packet size.

  A VPN is your best bet.

  Alan DeKok.




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