[Make-wifi-fast] Fwd: Re: [iccrg] TCP behavior across WiFi pointers ?

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> writes:

> A hint, but not a guarantee.  If you generate a fake ack, you'd better be
> prepared to retransmit the packet if, in fact, it gets lost deeper in the
> network.

I think their use case here is an AP that (they presume) is talking
directly to the client. In which case it's probably a fair assumption...
Most operating systems don't drop packets between the WiFi card and the
TCP stack :)

Of course, a client may be forwarding the packet somewhere, in which
case this would probably break in interesting ways...

-Toke