Re: What happened to CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF?

[Phillip Susi]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Congestion control is always appropriate in a shared network.  Please
> note that congestion control does not conflict with the objectives of
> UDP.  For UDP, congestion control can simply mean dropping packets at
> the source.  DCCP is a good replacement for UDP that has congestion
> control.

That is why I said that the application should implement its own 
congestion control, just in a different way than TCP does that is more 
appropriate to the specific needs of the application.


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