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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com>
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Subject: more on routes
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<<On Sat, 9 Mar 1996 11:22:43 -0800 (PST), Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com> said:

> RTM_LOSING: Kernel Suspects Partitioning: len 124, pid: 0, seq 0, errno 
> 0, flags
> :<UP,GATEWAY,HOST,MODIFIED,DONE>
> locks:  inits:
> sockaddrs: <DST,GATEWAY>
>  sac2-88 sac2

What this is telling you is that TCP had its retransmit timer go off.
This usually means that you can talk to the other end (or they can't
talk to you) right now, but you were able to talk beforehand for long
enough to get a connection established in the first place.

-GAWollman

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