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The statistics from the status commands show transferred bytes, compression, authentication, users etc.

I do not see a packet loss rate - but this would be very nice to assess the quality of the underlying link.

If I understand correctly, it should be very easy for the UDP receiver to update such a counter, as it does know about expected packets, right? For TCP, the underlying IP stack does hide the losses, so there this would not work.

Does such a counter already exist or is it feasible to add it?

I was searching for exactly this data and I have yet to figure out the solution. Did you ever make any traction on this subject? I so, please share.

Right now I am doing pings every few minutes to see what fails but this is less than desirable solution. The packet lose would a great addition to the data set. Even if another line type had to be added it would be worth the the parsing effort.

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