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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:47:09 -0600 (CST)
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TCP anomalies (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)
Message-ID:  <200111300647.fAU6l9K60404@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-net/200111300518.fAU5IXx11078@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.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>

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In article <local.mail.freebsd-net/200111300518.fAU5IXx11078@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> you write:
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>test4 was the only trace I looked at.  One thing that caught my eye is
>that the receiver seems to be sending a bunch of dupacks (in some cases,
>many more than needed to trigger fast retransmit) but no retransmit
>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.
>
>This looks a little odd, but it *could* be explained by data segments
>getting misordered somewhere and the dupacks getting lost.
>
>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.

I wonder if we can figure out which -RELEASE this started happening in.
-- 
Jonathan

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