> I started trying out Mudfish for nearly a week with 24 hours a day. I have a disastrous connection issue today at a critical moment in game (FFXIV). I had to stop my game and understand how to configure Mudfish properly. I having a few troubles.

Sorry for this connection issue first. My comments are inlined at below.

> What are those entries in access logs? There are many entries with My Computer (source) to various destinations that seems irrelevant. They seems to represent a large portion of my traffic expense.

This was a core design decision when first Mudfish was implemented that Mudfish client keeps connections to all mudfish nodes to be handyfor a case of changing the node configuration. So most of packets are for heatbeating, multicasting or broadcasting packets from mudfish nodes. Maybe this will be gone at next release because it's not proper approach nowadays if Mudfish has a lot of nodes.

> Correct me if I'm wrong. RTT in "Active Items > Setup > Nodes" are expected ping to my item (e.g. FFXIV). What about the RTT in Status > Nodes?

RTT in "Active Items > Setup > Nodes" is RTT value from "Your desktop -> Mudfish nodes -> Games Server". RTT in Status > Nodes is RTT value from "Your desktop -> Mudfish nodes".

> What does Realtime Traffic on dashboard tells? Is it from My Computer to FFXIV? Or My Computer to Mudfish VPN? Or Mudfish VPN to FFXIV? During bad connection period, I can see 0 Tx/Rx bits. Presumably due to packet loss, which lead to my next question.

Realtime Traffic graph indidates that input or output bytes at Mudfish program itself (not from OS's statistics). With graph, you can see that the game traffics goes through mudfish node you picked. So my answer is "My Computer to Mudfish VPN". If it shows 0 RX/TX bites, it means there are no packets from game clients or mudfish nodes.

> Is the notification popup the only way to find out that I'm having packet loss? At least, it would be nice to see the number of packet loss such in WTFast. It would be great if I can know the packet loss occurs either between My Computer to Mudfish VPN or between Mudfish VPN to game server, so I can decide how to select the optimal nodes.

Unforunately all information are at Mudfish core internally already because it regularly checks RTT avg / std / packet loss rate but it's not exposed to UI. :-( Sometimes you'll see MUDEC_00238 (not documented yet) error code regarding to packet loss information. I'll improve this stuff soon.

Thank you. The information is helpful.

Strangely, there is an entry transferred 50MB+. That's quite heavy for heartbeat. Besides, keeping all connection isn't very helpful. FFXIV still get disconnected everytime I change node. :(

It would certainly be great if I can view packet loss stat to the node I am connected to.

Anyway, thank you for your help. Despite the UI lacking, I'm enjoying mudfish. Thank you for your hard work. :)

> Strangely, there is an entry transferred 50MB+. That's quite heavy for heartbeat. Besides, keeping all connection isn't very helpful.

As mentioned at my previous comment, it includes heartbeat, multicasting or broadcasting packets from mudfish nodes. So it'd be one of reasons. However this issue will be gone when the next release of Mudfish is available because I already had patched this routine to reduce unnecessary packets. :-)

> FFXIV still get disconnected everytime I change node. :(

This disconnection is very normal because you're using to different mudfish nodes. As you know, whenever you changed the node, in a view of game server you're accessing from different public IP. If it's not disconnected from game server when you changed the node, it means you're not accessing through Mudfish.

> It would certainly be great if I can view packet loss stat to the node I am connected to.
> Anyway, thank you for your help. Despite the UI lacking, I'm enjoying mudfish. Thank you for your hard work. :)

Thank you for waiting. I hope you'll see features you requested soon. :-)