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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@bec...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Nagle algorithm
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:16:18 GMT

cross@mat... (Dan Cross) writes:

> If you wanted to buffer 200 ``a's'' before sending them, why not do that
> explicitly?

Because the only way to know the correct number to buffer involves
knowing transport level information like the MSS and so forth.