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Clients rapidly connect / disconnect

Relevant peer from video: ipad.nb.vpn

I've got a weird issue here. Sometimes when clients try to establish / re-establish connection to other peers (as a result of switching networks I.e. like 5G <-> WiFi, device resuming from sleep, or simply doing `netbird up` on a disconnected client), a peer connection will end up in this weird rapidly switching state, switching between disconnected and P2P-connected.

The connection between the devices will be extremely unstable (about 1 in 10 pings go through, while the rest are dropped).

Usually either 0 or 1 peers end up in this state. I've never seen more than that (yet).

The problem seems to happen on both mobile (Android / iOS) and (Linux) PCs.

In the dashboard both clients show as properly connected.

The current fix is a full teardown and setup of the connection on one of the problematic peers – not the end of the world, but still annoying and cumbersome – especially when the connection to the DNS host is the one that goes bad.

Anyone familiar with something like this, or have suggestions on how to possibly fix this?

https://v.redd.it/gwypz5yjt7qh1

Source: r/netbird · by /u/Aududen

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