> No, nagle was invented specifically for telnet. Without nagle, every
No it was general purpose. It fixes some extremely bad behaviour in TCP with congestion well beyond the "telnet" behaviour. > Things like mouse movements should not be sent over TCP at all. UDP > makes a much better protocol for that kind of data since if a packet is UDP is rarely appropriate because it has no congestion control. There are more appropriate protocols but they are rarely implemented so TCP generally gets used. > lost, there is no need to retransmit the same data; instead you just get > the next position update and don't care about where the mouse was during > the dropped packet. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
