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Subject: Re: [9fans] Nagle algorithm
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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:57:35 +0000
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Dan wrote:
> It has to do with abstraction, on one hand, and proper seperation
> of function.  The TCP has no business trying to guess what my
> application is doing; that's for my application to decide.  TCP
> should be abstracted away from that stuff.

I'm being a little simplistic here, but since there are assigned
port numbers, why not have the bind/connect subsystems make the
decision based on port, with a default for anything else?

steve