Re: [PATCH] Using TCP_NODELAY unconditionally

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%ubsw.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:19:14PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:46:11PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:23:53PM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > > [wg chair hat off]
> > > 
> > > > It's not clear yet that forwarding X11 traffic with SSHv2 and Nagle
> > > > turned on is a problem. 
> > > 
> > > In my experience, it is; most ssh implementations turn off nagle on
> > > "interactive" connections.
> > 
> > OpenSSH doesn't. Which implementations do?
> 
> OpenSSH does, currently.

Ooo, I see that, yes, and only for interactive sessions.

If interactive character-based sessions are the one place where Nagle
definitely belongs and OpenSSH turns it off there, why not turn off
Nagle altogether for all SSHv2 sessions?

Nico

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