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Jnc: better cat

2018-12-22T13:19:59Z

better cat

Jnc: Avoid redir

2018-11-05T19:17:16Z

Avoid redir

Jnc: Proper cat, fix error

2018-10-21T12:41:16Z

Proper cat, fix error

Jnc: Somewhat stubby, but a good start

2018-06-14T18:40:15Z

Somewhat stubby, but a good start

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In an [[internetwork]] networking system, a '''timeout''' occurs when no [[acknowledgement]] for data or a [[packet]] sent by an entity to another is received from the other before a given time after it was originally sent - presumably because it was damaged or lost by the basic [[internetworking layer]]. After the timeout happens, the data/packet will be [[retransmission|retransmitted]].

Since the delay is a real-time delay (since the entity at the other end is independent), such systems are a variety of [[real-time system]]. In a [[wide-area network]], calculating what the appropriate delay should be is a non-trivial problem, and it took well over a decade of work before the timers in the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]] worked well.

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 In a [[packet switch]]ing [[communication network]], a '''timeout''' occurs when no [[acknowledgement]] for data or a [[packet]] sent by an entity to another is received from the other before a given time after it was originally sent - presumably because it was damaged or lost by the network. After the timeout happens, the data/packet will be [[retransmission|retransmitted]].
-Since the delay is a real-time delay (since the entity at the other end is independent), such systems are a variety of [[real-time system]]. In a [[wide-area network]], calculating what the appropriate delay should be is a non-trivial problem, and it took well over a decade of work before the timers in the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]] worked well.
+Since the delay is a real-time delay (since the entity at the other end is independent), such systems are a variety of [[real-time system]]. In a [[wide area network]], calculating what the appropriate delay should be is a non-trivial problem, and it took well over a decade of work before the timers in the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]] worked well.
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