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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:01:02 +0200, Tommi Harkonen <harkonen@mail.teliafi.net> said:

>> This is perfectly natural.  TCP will generate these messages whenever
>> its retransmission timer goes off; they should correlate with packet
>> losses.

>  Is it also natural that I cannot ftp from the box to anywhere
> (eg. ftp.cdrom.com)?

One goes in hand with the other.  Your TCP connections are timing out,
which causes the RTM_LOSING messages.  Clearly, your packets are not
getting anywhere.  Perhaps you should carefully check your
configuration.

-GAWollman


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