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Re:How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential by tirumaraiselvan on Sunday November 22, 2015 @01:30AM (#10609282)
That might be because Mac OS X implements modified Nagle's algorithm as mentioned here at the bottom: http://www.stuartcheshire.org/papers/NagleDelayedAck/
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Re:How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential by masklinn on Sunday November 22, 2015 @06:27AM (#10609774)
So OSX implements a slightly modified nagle to remove the bad interaction between nagle and delayed acks?
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