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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Nagle algorithm
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:16:04 +0000
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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!