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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:53:03 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP 
Message-ID:  <199908310553.HAA33240@gratis.grondar.za>

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> If you don't know that they are, you don't need to worry about them. :-)
> 
> Seriously, they are allow finer control over some of the TCP behavior.
> 
> delacktime is related to Nagle's algorithm, and specifies how long a
> system should delay ACK'ing a packet in hopes that it can collect some
> data from ther user and piggyback it on top of the ACK packet.

This _may_ be a solution to a problem I am having with SSH on a
congested link; I don't get my characters back until I hit a bunch
of characters (it appears that they are stuck in an outbound buffer
untill then. The problem only happens on congested links with SSH,
and is somewhat random but repeatable.

M
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