I have a box that is loosing UDP packets.

Whilst UDP to my understanding is a "throwawayable" commodity, I suspect it's possible to receive all of the UDP data to this box by tuning a kernel setting somewhere ...

Also how do I read /proc/net/udp to determine why UDP packet loss is occurring ? And to confirm that it is UDP packet loss.

Sorry if i've been a little vague here, please ask for further clarification is required.

what type of network is this computer on? How did you ascertain that it is losing UDP packets? explain your whole network setup and give us all the information you can give.

It's on a switched WAN, I believe that's the correct terminology.

[root@host root]# mii-tool
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok

Running the 2.4.20-30.7 kernel.

I believe it's loosing incoming UDP packets, due to high transfers / connections at the same time. This is the collusion that someone else came to.

Too many UDP packets come in from many client boxes, so how do I tweak the UDP buffer size, would this make a difference and how do I decode the /proc/net/udp output ? It may not be the solution, but i'd like to try ...

Corrections, advice more than welcomed.

Thanks