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Glossary: TCP/IP in Depth, Part 2

retransmission

Also written: resend, retransmit

Sending the same data again because it wasn't acknowledged, like the repeated SYN to a dropped port or the resent segment 54212:55672 in loss.pcap.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

retransmission timeoutfast retransmitduplicate ACK