TCP information

Deepak Jain deepak at ai.net
Thu Sep 18 08:30:55 PDT 2003


>    If you've got a small enough amount of traffic, you could use
> tcpdump to
> snarf the headers and then use your favourite scripting languge
> to look for
> repeated sequence numbers (retransmits) and repeated acks (lost packets);
> but I suspect this would be too slow for most purposes.

Yeah, we thought about using a sniffer in front of a box to accomplish the
same task to overcome the performance issue, but a more direct way would
really be suitable to our application.

Thanks!

Deepak Jain
AiNET



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