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@@ -3,20 +3,19 @@ Whenever a hop is completed, the receiving node will send back an acknowledgemen
Packet retransmission means that if a client sends 100 packets to a gateway, but only receives an acknowledgement ('ack') for 95 of them, it will resend those 5 packets to the gateway again, to make sure that all packets are received. All nodes in the mixnet support packet retransmission.
```
+-------------------+ +-------------------+
| +---------------+ | | | Packet lost in transmission - no ack recieved!
| | Nym client | | | |-----------------?
| +-------^-------+ |Send 100 packets | |
| | |----------------->| Gateway your | Resend packet +------------------+ etc...
| | | | client is |------------------>| |------------------>
| | | | connected to | | Mix node layer 1 |
| v | Send 100 acks | |<------------------| |
| +---------------+ |<-----------------| | Send ack +------------------+
| | Your app code | | | |
| +---------------+ | | |
+-------------------+ +-------------------+
Your Local Machine
```mermaid
---
config:
theme: dark
layout: elk
---
sequenceDiagram
Nym Client->>Gateway: N Sphinx Packets
Gateway-->>Nym Client: N Acks
Gateway->>Mix Node 1: Packets 1..95
Mix Node 1-->>Gateway: Acks 1..95
Gateway-xMix Node 1: Packets 96..100 Dropped - No Acks
Gateway->>Mix Node 1: Retransmit Dropped Packets after timeout
Mix Node 1-->>Gateway: Acks 96..100
Mix Node 1->>Mix Node 2: etc
```