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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> I've been complaining about this for a year or two.  I think it is because
>> tcp/ip wasn't designed for bidirectional interface.  My standard benchmark
>> is:

>This is simply not true.

>> This takes about twice as long as would separate rcp's because acks get
>> queued behind large amounts of data and arrive too late to keep the data
>> streaming.

>This is because you don't have priority queueing for TCP ack packets.
>You probably will before the end of the year.

Why didn't we have designed-in things yesterday?

Bruce