There is another scenario where you can S's, which is when using bad
network cables (this is most often a problem with cheap optical fibers).

On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM Marcus D. Leech <patchvonbr...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 05/01/2025 17:19, cjohn...@serranosystems.com wrote:
> >
> > I hope everyone had a good holiday break!
> >
> > Would you mind providing some guidance on the 3 questions?
> >
> > Thanks
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> I will be able to comment that 'S' on a transmit stream means that a
> packet got dropped on the network between the host and
>    the radio.  This shouldn't ever happen, but sometimes for a "fresh"
> UDP stream, the kernel driver will drop a UDP frame while
>    it completes ARP transactions.  But that should happen not very
> often, and there's likely a kernel parameter that can
>    disable this behavior.  But, for a fully-working network stack, my
> understanding is that 'S' should be very rare unless you're
>    offering a packet load that the "stack" just cannot cope with because
> it's running out of space to put your packets.
>
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