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From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Subject: way of figuring out total number of retransmitted packets on a TCP socket?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:01:34 +0200
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Hi,

I'm looking for a way of counting the total number of retransmitted packets
sent on a TCP connection.  I tried querying TCP_INFO:tcpi_retransmits, but
that seems to be not the metric I'm looking for.

Anyone got any ideas?  (Apart from using tcpdump+tcptrace.)


cheers,
Lennert