(tries to glue your words back together) Define message and response, etc. Are you talking packets? or something like an application level reply? On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Cham, LP wrote: > > Hi, > > I have 2 machines that act as a client-server. > > When a connection has been established, the server > will keep sending msg to the client whereby the client > will simply process and send back the response. > > The question is, will the response be sent out to the > server when the server is still continuously sending > the request. How is this managed and by which level - the kernel? > > How long and how much can the server holds the outgoing response > before he has a chance to send out the response? > > Thanks and regards, > Cham > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu