Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:50:46 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | RE: Question regarding TCP behavior |
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On Thursday 2008-05-29 18:56, David Schwartz wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> I have a question about how linux's TCP stack behaves. >> I apologize if this is not the right place to ask this question and >> please redirect me. >> >> When a TCP end point (A) sends x bytes of data to the other end point (B), >> does B immediately ACK the received bytes or will it do so only >> when the data >> is passed to the upper layer ? >> >> >> Thanks >> Thomas > >If the TCP connection was idle and there is no unacknowledged data in either >direction, the answer is neither. > >Acknowledging the data immediately is wasteful.[...]
And for everything else, there is the PSH bit. (I assume?)
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