From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 30 22:54:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F98153B5 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:54:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA33240; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:53:03 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199908310553.HAA33240@gratis.grondar.za> To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:53:03 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message