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SubjectRe: TCP/PPP bug 2.3.5?
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Then why is packet loss only happening to _outgoing_ connections?
>
> Well for one you will find that people use different wires in each direction

The telephone system uses one pair of wires for both directions
of traffic.

> I'd be -suprised- if a partial failure case (as opposed to the
> complete failure) was bidirectional

Well. I guess that still doesn't explain how to fix the
problem I and a lot of other people are seeing. Since we
have workarounds for just about every other hardware
problem, I guess we will want to do something to have
at least decent worst-case performance on slightly flakey
networks...



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