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  1. JGroups
  2. JGRP-1578

UNICAST: lost ACK leads to endless retransmissions

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    • Resolution: Done
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    • 3.2.7, 3.3
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      • B sends a unicast message M to A
      • A drops the ACK(M) to B
      • B sends no further messages to A
        --> B will keep retransmitting M to A until it gets an ACK from A, or A leaves the cluster
        --> However, A will not send an ACK(M) to B, as the logic for acking only sends an ack if we did receive a message from B and it was successfully added to the retransmit table
        --> However, the retransmitted M will not get added to A's table, as M has already been received

      SOLUTION:

      • Always ack a message frpm B with the highest delivered seqno for B's table

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