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To: Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: my web server 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:01:02 -0800."
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Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 04:09:45 +0100
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Robert Du Gaue wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.91.960331190012.13133D-100000@web1.calweb.com>:
> > All these mean is that the kernel timed a packet out whilst waiting
> > for an `ack' to get back, so it retranmitted the packet...

> So this is normal? It doesn't neccessarily point to a network problem? I 
> get this continously at the rate of 10-20 ever few mins.

``normal'' in that it points to somewhere between yourself and the
client being overloaded and losing packets... which on todays Internet
is becoming more and more common. :(

Gary