On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:48:08AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> The retransmissions are, I suspect, the key.  If TCP has to retransmit,
> it's because a packet or its acknowledgment got lost;

Or because the remote end took too much time sending the ack.

> TCP in turn
> interprets that as due to congestion and backs off.  The question, then,
> is why packets are getting lost.  Does 'netstat -i -d' show any drops on
> lo0?

No, the count it 0. Real interfaces don't have drops either.

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