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Date:      Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:35:37 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: why 100 byte TCP segments? 
Message-ID:  <199801120035.QAA04285@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:34:50 MST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980111153144.10734d-100000@alive.znep.com> 

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>Yup, this seems to happen only with data between one and two mbuffs
>in size, ie.  101-207 bytes or so.  Smaller and it fits in one
>packet, between 208 and the MTU it is properly sent in one packet.

   It's a known problem with the socket code that has existed in BSD forever.
I think Garrett put a work-around in by fudging some thresholds, but I may be
mistaken.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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