Strange Problem with 16 byte packets

Ruairi Carroll ruairi.carroll at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 08:47:26 UTC 2016


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 at 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 !
>



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