> The idea is that tcp's slow start / congestion avoidance mechanism
> will handle the situation in the terrestrial nw correctly, and
> transmission will not suffer from the long delay link.
>
> The 'tcp box' must monitor tcp sesssions, generate acks towards the
> sender (possibly drop acks from the mobile?), and of course buffer
> tcp data that it has ack'ed to the sender, but which has not been
> ack'ed by the mobile yet.
This is "TCP Spoofing" as described in RFC 3135 on PEP's. Also, a Milcom paper
on the subject http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/~jishac/papers/2001/TCP_Spoofing.pdf
(please excuse the shameless self plug :)
I strongly suggest reading RFC 3135 if you have not done so already.
- Joseph
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