It can record both dropped packets and successful connections.

Of course, it is always possible to simply drop packets in a network with a best effort delivery strategy.

You would think, oh, that's good because then you won't drop packets.

And so it would have no choice but to drop packets.

She wondered when they'd done it - the day before, dropping packets from the flitter?

"The gateway ran out of memory, so it just started dropping packets on the floor."

So in this system, the system simply dropped packets.

Otherwise it would risk dropping received packets due to lack of space.

Can't we just drop packets of Revels on them from planes really high up?

And we also remember that routers have permission to drop packets.