Packet loss problem

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 06:39:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>   / 33104 broadcast/multicast datagrams dropped due to no socket " which seems an inordinatly high amount. There are no drops due to full socket buffers, although I have recompiled the kernel with nmbclusters=8192 and Maxusers=1024 (to increase number of available sockets - kern.ipc.maxsockets to 9391), still the loss occurs. Any suggestions, and could someone explicitly explain what "broadcast/multicast datagrams dropped due to no socket"  means.

As Pete points out this unusually high 'no socket' figure could be due to
packets being received for a service you don't run. Beefing up the
number of PCBs you can have won't have any effect there if that is the case.

Also it could be due to a socket application not binding to INADDR_ANY to
pick up undirected broadcasts (they don't get delivered to interface bound
ports). Of course this is probably not likely to affect your application
if you're explicitly unicasting traffic. But if you intend to receive
multicasts this could be the case.

Are you filtering anything, or could your upstream be filtering anything?

BMS