Duplicate acks and retransmission are the impact of the large number of lost packets. Lost packets could be caused by a bad link. Try to pingpath to the other end to see what's happening between you and your parents-in-law (hope you don't have any problem with them at least :) ).
On 2/26/07, Ian S. Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm very new at this, so please forgive me if this seems naive r is in the > wrong place. > > I'm having problems connecting from the UK to a PAP2 box at my parents-in-law > house in South America. > > A wireshark trace shows what seems to my eyes to be a large number of lost > packets, duplicate ACKs, and retransmissions. > > I've put the trace up at http://isw.me.uk/content/view/18/28/ along with some > capture of status reports from the modem. > > I'm trying to identify if there's a problem at their end (line quality? bad > modem? bad configuration?), at my end, or somewhere in between (ISP > blocking). > > Is there anyone here who understands these things, or who can point me to a > better resource? > > Thanks, > > ian > ... > > > Ian S Worthington > ... > Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et > dulcissimus pro patria biber. Ergo, bibiamo pro salute patriae. _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
