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On 2026-01-16, The Natural Philosopher  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

or

https://gist.github.com/jcberthon/ea8cfe278998968ba7c5a95344bc8b55

cu
Michael
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