Re: These mysterious white crosses...

From: Stuart Cheshire (cheshire@apple.com)
Date: 08/24/01


Message-Id: <200108241912.f7OJCWw04897@scv2.apple.com>
Subject: Re: These mysterious white crosses...
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:12:32 -0700
From: Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com>


>I'm wondering about the meaning of the white crosses on the green line
>(which tracks the acknowledged data by the receiver) of TIME-SEQUENCE
>graphes. Are they "non containing data segments"? There's no word about
>it on the web site?
>Does anyone know what they say?

I believe it is just an empty data packet (i.e. just an ack, with zero
bytes of data).

Imagine a line with an arrowhead each end.

Now imagine the line is zero length, and draw the two arrowheads -- it
looks like an X.

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com>
 * Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Computer
 * Chairman, IETF ZEROCONF
 * www.stuartcheshire.org

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