So I'm looking at the output of 'netstat -s -t' and I see the various TCP retransmit counters increase quite a bit. Particularly concerning is this counter: Tcp: 223726 active connections openings ...
In our continuing discussion of TCP and selective retransmission of lost packets, we enlisted the help of Gary Kessler, an associate professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., and our resident ...
In the last newsletter, we dug into some of the details of TCP and how the protocol would typically handle a lost packet in the middle of a transmission. This time, our reader Ken offers another ...