James Hughes
James Hughes
rc.local is probably the best approach. Closing this issue as questions answered/issue resolved.
Happy to reopen, but I doubt it will get a huge amount of attention in the near future, other more important issues in the queue.
@pelwell Can this go on any list of wireless issues that get passed up to whoever currently makes the chip?
Any relevant messages in syslog? Also, any ideas when this problems started to occur?
A quick glance and some minor debugging at the driver level seems to indicate that it is not the driver itself that is dropping the packet - the code that...
It's quite possible this is harmless. The dropped packet count is not only used for errors, but also flagging up packets that are dropped because the linux stack doesn't handle...
OK, not IPv6, but that was only given as an example of some packets that are simply discarded by the network stack. Dropped packets are not, necessarily, an error. If...
Here is some (probably quite old) text on why a packet may be dropped. Also worth noting that even if IPv6 is disable on the Pi, it could still receive...
After much faffing, I have build a utility I found called dropwatch, rebuilt the kernel to turn on a particular form of net logging and now have a list of...
OK, thanks to a timely intervention from @pelwell I do have some idea of the code that is dropping the packets. The ifconfig dropped packet counter appears to be incremented...