[190125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange Problem with 16 byte packets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ruairi Carroll)
Thu Jun 16 04:47:31 2016
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From: Ruairi Carroll <ruairi.carroll@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:47:26 +0200
To: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Follow the TCP stream - which side times out the link, and for what
sequences of data do you get ACKs for?
/Ruairi
On 16 June 2016 at 10:43, Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using a proprietary protocol and sending a bunch of bytes to a Draytek
> router at an enterprise site. When i send the data in TCP batches of 1 MB i
> see no problem. However, when i first send 16 bytes followed by 1 MB of
> data, and then repeat this till the entire data has beeen sent out. During
> this process I see that my TCP session times out. Unable to understand why
> this could be happening? How can sending 16 bytes of data followed by 1MB
> of data affect the transfer.
>
> Thanks !
>
