Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Tcp Retransmission acceptable %

[Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10:51 PM 1/17/2006, Sean Cook wrote:
>I am very grateful for the reply. I'm looking on the inside of a
>firewall between a device that acts as a gateway for mobile devices
>connected to the Internet for GSM/GPRS.
>
>Mobile Devices <-> GGSN <..trace here..> Firewall <-> Internet
>
>I'm seeing anywhere from 4%-7% retransmission down from 37% ... I still
>want to clean this up, but wanted to get "ideal" and "real world"
>numbers before setting my goals.


If you google for "internet packet loss" you'll get some carriers definition of what the SLA is.  But with mobile devices, I would have to think that 3% ain't all that bad!

hsb