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Packet drops with USB (Gigabit) Ethernet adapter with ASIX chipset #172
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We have made a lot of changes related to statistics (dropped/received counters) and performance in Npcap 0.9997. Please test with that version and let us know if this issue persists. Thanks! |
After a first short test I can confirm that's better now, but not completly solved. I still see single lost frames, but not hundreds as before. |
Hi,
I've bought a USB 3.0 10/100/1000 Ethernet adapter with AX88179 chipset from UGREEN to capture packets with Wireshark 3.2.3/3.2.4 on my Win10 client.
When I did the first capture I realized that there are a lot of "Previous segment not captured" messages in different TCP streams. So I started a second capture on the client side interface to compare them both. The capture of the client sides interface had no lost packets, but the capture of the USB adapter showed about 200 "Previous segment not captured" messages in one minute of 200 kbit/s traffic.
To verify that the adapter has no hardware defect, I tried some other adapters:
UGREEN USB 3.0 Gigabit 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Adapter (ASIX AX88179)
Plugable USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter USB3-E1000 (ASIX AX88179)
Plugable USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapter USB2-E100 (ASIX AX88772)
All of them are having the same issue.
I've already did the following troubleshootings without success:
Changed original drivers of USB adapters to the one from ASIX
Tested adapters with another Win10 client
Capture with an internal on-board-LAN port from Realtek with the same span port -> no "Previous segment not captured" messages. Conclusion: Switch/span port is fine.
Gigabit USB adapters has no packet drops as LAN interface. 952 Mbit/s throughput (iPerf3) without unusual error frames.
Disabled all energy-saving and offloading options of the USB adapters
Raised capture buffer to 500MB
Captured with dumpcap.exe (the summary at the end says "No lost packets")
Downgrade npcap from 0.9991 to 0.9987
Now I'm not sure if this is an issue with ASIX chipset in general, or something with npcap. I'm also wondering why I haven't found any other reports related to this behaviour. Is it me only?
DiagReport-20200522-161455.txt
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