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RE: Making my own IDS... how to detect packet loss ? Jul 16 2009 06:49PM
Francis, Shannon (Shannon Francis jetblue com)
I actually think that's one of the shortcomings of TCP. I could be wrong but I don't think there is a way to tell if a packet has been dropped if they are sent out of order, because the whole reason it's a TCP connection is that it's error-checking, meaning it will wait until either it has received ...

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