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by hinkley 621 days ago
This is my new favorite video on TCP/IP:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R6WN4_bBB1Q

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Out of order does not cause a reset. Some networks with unstable topologies like wireless meshes frequently cause reordering and it doesn’t destroy TCP streams. It usually just results in inefficient retransmits when the receiver registers it as a drop.

It was a good video until the RST.

I think that was supposed to be packets coming too fast. They kinda flubbed that bit.