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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 1999 02:38:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
To:        Craig Critchley <craigc@nwlink.com>
Cc:        dg@root.com, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTP Net Performance 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910280237560.30200-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <217001bf2117$7dfb5150$0201010a@fuzzer.com>

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Craig Critchley wrote:

> It's the same model netcard as what's in the BSD machine - Netgear FA310TX.
> File sharing between Windows machines is *significantly* faster.  I can
> imagine that BSD thinks its already sent as much as the receiver can take,
> but why does it think it needs to resend that particular piece when Windows
> has ack'd it twice (unless doing so is a bad idea - like I said, I'm not
> that much of an expert).

ACKing twice is an indictation of dropped packets. It says "i'm going to
keep acknowledging the last known good packet until you send me the one
after it."

.. or something like that.

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