Nagle makes almost no difference.
> About five hops upstream, router was dropping 30% of packets. I use
Any link with 30% packet loss should be avoided. The TCP protocols themselves
dont work as well about 10% packet loss.
> Is there anyway to disable Nagle for a short period of time, or is it
> a compile and live with it option? Or a way to set TCP_NODELAY on
> certain sockets? I'm just throwing out terms I don't understand. :-)
If you want to disable nagle, eg because you are getting blocky data
there is a socket option. Enabling it on a congested link will just make
things worse.
Alan