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On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:11:00PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> TCP interprets dropped packets as congestion loss, and slows down its=20
> transmission rate rather drastically.

If the macs are running OS/X, you may also be suffering additional
trouble because they have the old freebsd stretch-ack bug.

The problem can probably be seen quite easily with a packet capture
and tcptrace TSG plots, but you need to know what you're looking at.

--
Dan.

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