We've, (well actually you guys) have been experiencing a lot of disconnects from the TFC server the past few days. We may have found a fix for it. Warning: techno babble ahead!


We use Xen to run several virtual servers. It turns out that under certain workloads a bug in the xen-netfront driver is getting triggered. This causes packets to be dropped. When enough packets get dropped and the latency between a player and the server is high enough, players can get disconnected. It appears this can happen to any Linux kernel newer than 3.7. We have just upgraded the Linux kernel on our server to 3.17.7 which contains a fix for this issue.

Please let us know if guys have a better connection with the server after this update.