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On 18/01/2026 11:06, Michael Schwingen wrote:

On 2026-01-16, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

What is happening is that the bridge seems perfectly stable from
Ethernet to the bridge host machine, but is very variable on the Wi-Fi
interface, and that gets worse if
- the incoming packet is via the inbound router from the internet...
- inbound traffic to the host is heavy.

I get between 48% and 988% packet loss to external machines on the
Internet. Mostly OK access to the rest of the LAN using the Wi-Fi interface.

Could this be caused by WIFI power management? You might try disabling that.

iw wlan0 set power_save off

already done.
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