Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Info in a TCP packet that it has been received?

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From: Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:04:02 -0400
On 01:49 PM 8/28/2004, bejay wrote:
>Is there anyway to tell from outgoing Packets whether the packet has been
>received at the other end whether it is to a Web Server or a Mail Server
>(when you do NOT see the incoming packets)....... is there any indication in
>the IP/TCP to know that it got to its destination?


How is this possible in tcp?  tcp will not work if ACKs are not acknowledged.

hsb