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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:58:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TCP anomalies (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)
Message-ID:  <200111301758.fAUHwSP28351@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200111300647.fAU6l9K60404@prism.flugsvamp.com>
References:  <local.mail.freebsd-net/20011128102241.6887B380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> <local.mail.freebsd-net/20011128112006.195983808@overcee.netplex.com.au> <local.mail.freebsd-net/20011129105321.C74413@monorchid.lemis.com> <local.mail.freebsd-net/200111290113.fAT1DnH04474@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <local.mail.freebsd-net/200111300518.fAU5IXx11078@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <200111300647.fAU6l9K60404@prism.flugsvamp.com>

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<<On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:47:09 -0600 (CST), Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> said:

[Quoting Bruce Mah:]

>> happens.  In *most* cases, the receiver somehow gets the missing data
>> because you can later see it acking later sequence numbers.  The first
>> place I saw this was at :41.504152.

Those are not duplicate acks because the window is still getting updated.

>> Another place to look is the large number of consecutive dupacks
>> starting around :41.978767.  I don't know what's happening here, but
>> after a long time (about a second?!?) the sender finally gives up and
>> sends the receiver what it wants.

> Yes, I think that area (I was looking at it too) provides a fairly
> good illustration that fast retransmits are broken.  The transmit 
> at 14:01:42.969338 appears to be the retransmit timer finally kicking in.

Yes, that's the conclusion Tim Shepard and I came to as well.

-GAWollman


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