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Withholding Acks

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From: tcp-ip
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1985 00:03
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From: Lixia Zhang <Lixia@MIT-XX.ARPA>

Could  someone tell me if there is/are TCP imlementations that withhold
acknowledgment packets?
And if so, are they the majority?  and how do they do it?

(I've read rfc813 by Dave Clark on that topic, but I'd like to know
whether/how it is implemented.)

Many thanks.

Lixia

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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!ucbvax!tcp-ip
From: tcp-ip@ucbvax.ARPA
Newsgroups: fa.tcp-ip
Subject: Withholding Acks
Message-ID: <9483@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 20:03:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9483
Posted: Tue Jul 30 20:03:53 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Aug-85 06:34:45 EDT
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Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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