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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 9 Jun 1996 12:08:25 -0700
Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA
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torvalds@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:

> In short, it definitely sounds like a NetBSD problem.

I agree.  It's a popular problem area these days.  For another example,
see <URL:news:4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>, where Sun announces
fixes to severe problems with Solaris 2.5 (and 2.5.1) TCP performance
when communicating over slow links.  (In our case, the intervening node
was a Cisco terminal server, but it wasn't Cisco's fault.)  BSD and
Linux networking implementers should read that news article; it
describes some entertaining gotchas.