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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rick.jones2@hp.com
Cc: johnwheffner@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A SACK block to the left of the ACK? (with ptr to raw trace)
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 15:18:03 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140509.151803.557587813948439688.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <536D1D87.3060706@hp.com>

From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 11:25:11 -0700

> On 05/09/2014 11:21 AM, John Heffner wrote:
>> I didn't actually look at the trace, but offhand this sounds like
>> D-SACK. (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2883.txt)
> 
> Thanks for the gentle tap with the clue-bat :)

Indeed, it's probably a D-SACK and can be used to let the sender
know when a retransmit turned out to be spurious.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-09 17:34 A SACK block to the left of the ACK? (with ptr to raw trace) Rick Jones
2014-05-09 18:21 ` John Heffner
2014-05-09 18:25   ` Rick Jones
2014-05-09 19:18     ` David Miller [this message]

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