In Section 3.5.4, we saw that TCP waits until it has received threeduplicate ACKs before
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In Section 3.5.4, we saw that TCP waits until it has received threeduplicate ACKs before performing a fast retransmit. Why do you think theTCP designers chose not to perform a fast retransmit after the first duplicateACK for a segment is received?
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