Re: TCP congestion

[Philip Lavine <source_route () yahoo com>]

Even if the segment was received out of order what would cause congestion avoidance to starve the connection of 
legitimate traffic for 15 to 20 seconds? That is the core of the problem.

----- Original Message ----
From: Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>
To: Brian Knoll <Brian.Knoll () tradingtechnologies com>
Cc: Philip Lavine <source_route () yahoo com>; nanog <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:56:06 AM
Subject: Re: TCP congestion


On Jul 12, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Brian Knoll ((TTNET)) wrote:

> If the receiver is sending a DUP ACK, then the sender either never
> received the first ACK or it didn't receive it within the timeframe it
> expected.

or received it out of order.

Yes, a tcpdump trace is the first step.





       
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