On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Tomas Svensson wrote:

> This just verifies what I said weeks ago.
>
> On the client side:
>
> ## several packets are lost here due to congestion, thanks to
> TCP_NODELAY:
> ## server resends 641:1057 after a timer expired, 1 second seems long?
>
> 15:28:19.288745 transwarp.telnet > genius.kpop: P 641:1057(416) ack 64 win 33304
>
> Conclusion: This is a OpenSSH problem, not a FreeBSD problem.
>
> -Tomas

I'd have to agree.  I just recompiled libssh / sshd so that NODELAY would
not be set in any case, and ls acts a lot more nicely over a modem link.
(2 large updates, rather than lots of tiny ones.)  I'm not sure that we're
seeing any actual bug in the tcp stack here as much as the effect of
packet loss and tinygrams.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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