# Packet loss / port forwarding

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/packet-loss-port-forwarding/55018>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 14, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/packet-loss-port-forwarding/55018 "2022-01-14T10:28:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![SBL\_MC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/sbl_mc/32/56813_2.png) [@SBL\_MC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/SBL_MC)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/packet-loss-port-forwarding/55018/1 "2022-01-14T10:28:54Z")

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Hi All,

I have some issues with possible packet loss when launching a new client trough a port forwarded firewall rule. I forward only port 8088, which I believe should be sufficient. After some retries its still possible to get it going, getting me to thinking its not a firewall issue but something else in the network.

Any one solved a issue like this before?

Office network → firewall → ignition network, all wired.

 ![portforward](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/5/3/5359e2bbd0bd266962607e1d009172c7aa12ecdd.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/packet-loss-port-forwarding/55018/2 "2022-01-14T17:15:32Z")

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Install Wireshark, watch the traffic, prove to your IT group they’re mucking things up?

If it’s genuinely flakey - sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t, that’s pretty much a given about the state of the network.