Hello,
I am new to this community. I subscribed to ask a question here because I am really stuck.
My company makes electronic devices that use UDP 100 MB Ethernet communication with a PC (under Windows 7, 8.1 or 10).
It works perfectly with other brands of Ethernet adapters; but there is a strange behavious with the Intel NICs we tried (at least I219-V, I219-LM and I217-LM).
Basically, our electronic devices can be considered as cameras capturing about 150 images per second.
We send a small command on one socket via UDP to tell it to capture an image, then we receive the compressed image as a set of UDP packets on another socket.
Each packet contains up to 1444 bytes of data (to which one can add the data from the different layers of protocols, which in the end does not exceed the standard packet size => no need to use Jumbo packets).
The problem is that, sometimes (this varies from as often as every 5 seconds to as rarely as only once within a 10-mn period), I am waiting forever (until the defined UDP time out) for the data to arrive while it has been sent (I can see it by sniffing the data from another computer connected to the same switch). I could believe that the UDP packet was lost by the Intel NIC, but it has not been lost. If I send a new image capture command, the packets that I was waiting finally arrive, followed by the packets of the new image.
Why are those packets stuck?
Is there any advanced parameter that I could modify from the device driver's configuration window or from a Registry key?
Note that I tried updating the Intel driver to recent versions (last one is 22.4.0.1). It seems to perform a little better that some other versions I tried (like the one installed by default in Windows), but none of the versions I tried work perfectly.
Many thanks in advance if you can help me understand what is wrong (either from me or from the driver). I have been struggling on this problem for months and we have to equip our customers who own a laptop with an Intel NIC with USB adapters with a NIC made by another brand to bypass the problem.
Karl