From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Nagle algorithm
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:59:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111271859.NAA16425@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bshowweg.fsf@becket.becket.net>
In article <87bshowweg.fsf@becket.becket.net> you write:
>cross@math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) writes:
>> 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.
>
>But now, under your model, in order to get adequate network behavior,
>your application needs to know things like the MSS!
No, it doesn't. It just has to pick a reasonable default. I have
yet to hear a justification of why buffering in the user land libraries
or applications has to know about the MSS to get ``adequate network
behavior.''
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-27 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-26 11:23 Sean M. Doran
2001-11-26 19:28 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-27 8:57 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-27 14:39 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-27 19:56 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-27 22:26 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-29 16:55 ` Matt
2001-11-27 10:16 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-27 18:59 ` Dan Cross [this message]
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2001-11-29 17:33 jmk
2001-11-27 11:28 forsyth
2001-11-27 11:00 forsyth
2001-11-27 5:31 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-26 12:07 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-26 11:52 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-26 11:09 nigel
2001-11-24 10:48 forsyth
[not found] <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2001-11-24 5:32 ` Russ Cox
2001-11-24 20:04 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-11-24 3:26 Scott Schwartz
2001-11-23 11:58 forsyth
2001-11-26 11:07 ` Sean M. Doran
2001-11-26 19:22 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-27 10:16 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-27 18:55 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-23 9:44 forsyth
2001-11-26 9:59 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-22 13:24 forsyth
2001-11-22 13:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-23 9:34 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-26 19:13 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-21 23:38 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-21 23:59 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-22 9:57 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-21 23:20 Andrew Simmons
2001-11-26 10:57 ` Sean M. Doran
2001-11-26 19:11 ` Dan Cross
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