Here's an old one I saved in my archives but you could probably search
for it on nexial as well. The main situation it addresses is the use
of a router as a commserver, with a dumb terminal attached or dialed up.
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> Actually Paul did, just in a truncated manner. What he is saying is
> that enabling the Nagle algorithm on the router will affect the traffic
> that is originated directly FROM the router or is addressed directly TO
> the router (hence "terminated").
>
> So your guess is correct, it's the characteristics for the router as a
> host or end-station. Service nagle is especially good to enable if you
> are, say, telnetting to the router via a 56 kbps link or slower.
>
> I asked the same question last year, answered by Paul. I had to reread
> the docs for a bit before the filament would start glowing :-).
>
> It's worth pointing out while we're talking about this, that as far as I can
> tell, the "slow start congestion avoidance" algorithms mandated by various
> sources pretty much devolve to the Nagle algorithm for connections with
> non-continuous traffic (ie always doing "slow start" == "Nagle algorithm")
>
> I thought that was pretty neat when I realized it, but it also means that
> a slow-start tcp might be subject to some of the weird interactions that
> cause the Nagle algorithm to be off by default in a cisco...
>
> BillW
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>
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