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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: low speed tcp
Message-ID: <17893@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 88 23:24:54 GMT
References: <8811301317.AA04134@gateway.mitre.org>
Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
Organization: Stanford University
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     At 576 bytes per datagram, header overhead is only 7%.  Only if
you send very tiny packets is header overhead an issue, and we solved
the tinygram problem years ago.  Don't worry, be happy.

					John Nagle