[Simh] Cluster communications errors

[Hunter Goatley]

Hi, Dave.

> I run an ESXi host on a USDT system and use a USB3 LAN dongle to give 
> me a seperate network for user/management traffic so I can use the 
> onboard one for iSCSI. This was done following the artivle here:
>
> https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/03/working-usb-ethernet-adapter-nic-for-esxi.html

Thanks for the link!

> I note that that USB interface can be dropping packets all the time, 
> not a big problem if the protocols can handle that and RDP etc suffers 
> no real issues. But running something like TotalNetworkMonitor on a VM 
> there you do see that there are up to 50% or so ping packets lost in 
> its probes.
>
> Could be that you are seeing a similar behaviour where the protocol 
> doesn't handle lost packets too well...

Yeah, that's what it sounds like. I'll try to run some other tests on 
the USB dongle to see if I see anything else odd.

Thanks!

Hunter

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