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   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article   
   <472e97cd-6932-4252-abee-81f4fc46acd9@l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>,   
    Roy Smith  wrote:   
      
   > We're having a little debate at work.  During setup of a TCP   
   > connection, before reaching the ESTABLISHED state, if one of the three-   
   > way handshake packets (SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK) get lost, can the lost   
   > packet be retransmitted to complete the connection attempt?   
      
   Of course, they MUST be retransmitted until the appropriate timeout.   
   How else would you recover from a lost packet?   
      
   The TCP spec doesn't make any distinction about which packets should be   
   retransmitted.   
      
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   Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu   
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