Re: TCP acking too fast

From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 14:40:11 EST


Hello!

> And why (1) is a problem is precisely what I don't understand. Nagle is
> *supposed* to prevent you from sending multiple remnants.

It is not supposed to delay between sends for delack timeout.
Nagle did not know about brain damages which his great idea
will cause when used together with delaying acks. :-)

> is acked. This can be solved using an idea from Greg Minshall, which I
> thought was quite cool.

It is approach used in 2.4. :-)

It does help when sender is also linux-2.4. :-)

Alexey
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