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Re: [ns] Re: Packets lost
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Coward" <[email protected]>
To: "Qingjuan Gu" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:51 PM
Subject: [ns] Re: Packets lost
>
> > I am using TCP agent, and FTP application to do simulation.
> > node n0, n1 and n2.
>
> I could be misunderstanding what you are doing, but if you are using TCP
> then you shouldn't have many packets lost, since the source doesn't send
> another packet until it has got an ACK. If you did this with UDP you'd get
> many packets lost.
If packets are condemned to be lost, they will be lost without anything to
do with what trasport protocol is underlying. "Shouldn't have many..." got
something to do with quantitative analysis and "until it has got an ACK"
was not accurate, I think.