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The TCP Proxy Buffer

The proxy buffer is probably the least intuitive of the three TCP buffer sizes that you can configure in F5's TCP Optimization offering. Today I'll describe what it does, and how to set the...
Published Nov 22, 2016
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Martin_Duke
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May 17, 2017

Nagle has no effect on delivering data to the send buffer. If the congestion and peer receive windows allow it, the data arrives in the Send Buffer and only then does the Nagle logic apply.