[AusNOG] TCP - Fast Retransmit / Normal Retransmit times

Lawrence Stewart lstewart at room52.net
Mon Feb 16 14:36:14 EST 2015


On 02/16/15 14:31, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
[snip]
> In a nut shell, the first 3 dup acks trigger the sender to fast
> retransmit, reset the retransmit timeout (RTO) and enter fast recovery

The above should read "reset the retransmit timeout (RTO) timer" i.e.
the timer starts counting down from the RTO value.

Cheers,
Lawrence


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