It seems odd that one would receive many duplicate ACKs from a sender.
Perhaps the receiving stacks in question are mistakenly interpreting
the ACK field in the arriving data segments as duplicate ACKs? Does a
packet trace show actual standalone (no data in the segment) ACKs
arriving from the source?
rick jones
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