[e2e] Inferring loss at Client-side on TCP

[Saad Biaz]

On 4 Mar 2003, Kalyan wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a grad student working on developing a tool which should
> capture the loss based statistics at the client-side. The possible
> inputs to my tool are tcpdump traces.
>
> Can anyone suggest some heuristics of identifying loss based on
> client-side tcpdump traces.

Act like any TCP client!!! Whenever you see up to 3 out of order packets,
you may conclude that you lost packets.