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   Message 13,657 of 14,669   
   Jorgen Grahn to Chris Marget   
   Re: Debugging TCP stack   
   18 Oct 10 14:19:43   
   
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   From: grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se   
      
   On Mon, 2010-10-18, Chris Marget wrote:   
   > On Oct 16, 5:10 pm, vl  wrote:   
   >> I need to verify that a proprietary TCP stack is resending   
   >> a data packet when the receiver doesn't send an ACK. Is there   
   >> a way to build a TCP client app (Win32, WinSock, C/C++) that   
   >> is not sending an ACK on a certain data packet?   
   ...   
      
   > Are you trying to diagnose a problem you've noted?  I'm guessing so   
   > because "verify resending a data packet" falls far short of a full   
   > validation of the implementation.   
      
   On the other hand, "verify" sounds a lot like testing/QA, with the   
   expectation of not finding any problems ... :-/   
      
   As you indicate, if that's his task then he has plenty of work   
   to do ... even if he excludes the security aspects.   
      
   /Jorgen   
      
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