[e2e] 10% packet loss stops TCP flow

[Cannara]

It does depend on the tunnel options, for some systems, but in the case I
mentioned, which is mostly tunnelled Citrix traffic, that tends to take care
of itself, independently of the tunnel.

Alex

Donald Hoffman wrote:
> 
> On Fri March 4 2005 8:24 pm, Cannara wrote:
> > Riding along on the same link was a similar amount of VPN
> > traffic.  It was largely unaffected by the losses, because it's transported
> > in UDP and has its own recovery processes that work faster than normal TCP.
> 
> This may be a stupid question as I have not worked on commercial VPNs for many
> years, but what recovery mechanism would the VPN tunnel be using.  Most VPN's
> I was aware of just encapsulate the traffic in a tunnel and provided no
> additional error recovery services.    Is this a common feature?
> 
> Don