Re: way of figuring out total number of retransmitted packets on a TCP socket?

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:25:02 +0100
Baruch Even <baruch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The web100 patch gives you that, but it's not part of the basic kernel.

You don't need web100 for this simple statistic, see "tcpi_retrans"
We also provide nearly all of the lost packet tracking stats in
the form of "tcpi_unacked", "tcpi_sacked", "tcpi_lost", and
"tcpi_fackets".

In fact, web100 duplicates a lot of functionality provided already
by tcp_diag :-)