That is a good entry. I am clear now that the dropped packets are seen from both sides, not just on the received side as I originally thought.
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Many things that can happen to packets as they travel from origin to destination and they result in the following problems, as seen from the point of view of the sender and receiver:
* dropped packets - the routers might fail to deliver (drop) some packets if they arrive when their buffers are already full...
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