[e2e] TCP/TCPDUMP/Why do I see such a thing happening ?

[Yoshifumi Nishida]

From: "Kalyan" <kalyanramcvs at rediffmail.com>
Subject: [e2e] TCP/TCPDUMP/Why do I see such a thing happening ?
Date: 10 Apr 2003 02:52:56 -0000
Message-ID: <20030410025256.28494.qmail at webmail10.rediffmail.com>

>> * Why send 56568:56580 when asked for 55132:56568 ? -- Is it 
>> Out-of-order or is there something wrong

>From my experiences, I found some old OSs (ex. win98) send MSS -12 octects size 
packets, when they do fast retransmit. I'm not sure, but this might be related 
to your case.

The 12 bytes size may be related to the time stamp option somehow, 
but I've checked that the time stamp was not used in the connections.
--
Yoshifumi Nishida
nishida at csl.sony.co.jp