6/10    Sometimes when the http://berkeley.edu net is slow, my ssh connection
        drops characters going from my computer to csua (but not in the
        reverse direction, as far as i can tell).  Why does this happen?
        Since ssh runs on top of tcp/ip, shouldn't the dropped packets get
        retransmitted?  Or is this some anti-replay feature?
        \_ 1. the sequence numbers become way out of wack for the TCP to handle.
        \_ 1. the sequence numbers become way out of wack for the TCP to
              handle.
           2. those "queued" packets get dropped eventually (think the routers
              care about your connection until time ends?)
              \_ yesh but your TCP stack should still eventually resend them.
                 I hink you have more of an OS problem than a networking one.
                 \_ I use freebsd 4.5. It still times out.  What do you use?
                    \_ Turn on keep-alives.
                    \_ My connection isn't timing out.  It's just dropping
                       characters.                      -op
        \_ winXP never times out.
        \_ I read somewhere that telnet uses UDP.  Is that true?
           \_ No.