What is duplicate ACK when does it occur?

I’m currently learning about TCP protocol and don’t understand what duplicate acknowledgement are when they will occur. Also doesn’t retransmission only happen when a ACK is not received from the receiver to the client? To work out a retransmission you have to add the round trip time (from 3 way handshake) by the safety margin? … Read more

What are examples of TCP and UDP in real life?

UDP: Anything where you don’t care too much if you get all data always Tunneling/VPN (lost packets are ok – the tunneled protocol takes care of it) Media streaming (lost frames are ok) Games that don’t care if you get every update Local broadcast mechanisms (same application running on different machines “discovering” each other) TCP: … Read more