#11 Preemptive ACK/PACK (TCP ACK Spoofing)

[Justin Yaple]

To increase performance on links that have a high round trip time (RTT) opennop should spoof ACK packets to maintain a steady flow of TCP data. This will create other issues that will have to be addressed by this opennop.
Packet Loss Recovery for spoofed ACKed packets.
Congestion Detection & Avoidance

[Justin Yaple]

There is some referense in Wikipedia to TCP Spoofing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_spoofing#TCP_spoofing

This would really help satellite links and maybe even cellular backhaul.

[Justin Yaple]

I would like this feature to also work asymmetrically so OpenNOP could be placed in front of a web server and improve TCP performance when the client has a high latency connection (satellite or just far away from the host)

[Vigil]

this could be good for cellular backhaul ~ especially, i think, when opennop working with vpn and the tunnel mod is reliable protocol like tcp or sctp.

[Justin Yaple]

I want to call this "Preemptive Acknowledgement".

[Levente Peres]

For Samba trasnfers over high latency WAN, this would also be invaluable, Samba being heavily latency sensitive... basically anything that could reduce the effect of Samba "chatter" (which is a pain over VPN) is going a long ways... If you ever tried to open a 10M xlsx file over OpenVPN you'll know what I mean.