>>> Server sends 10 packets...
>>> ... it takes 200ms for them to get there, but packet #4 got dropped.
>>> Client acknowledges reception of the first 3... packets 5-10 are
>>> ignored.
>>> ... it takes 200ms for the acknowlegdement to get back.
>>> Server re-sends packets 4-10 and sends 11-13...
>>> etc...
>>
>> LOL if anyone wrote a protocol to work like that they should be shot!
>>
> You mean like this?
>
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793.txt
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc813.txt
>
>
Forgot to add: Johnathan Postel - who wrote most of the early IETF RFCs 
- is already dead, so you can't shoot him.

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