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From: PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU (Michael Padlipsky)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP Spoofing...
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Date: 5 Jan 91 00:57:33 GMT
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Since Reliability (sometimes known as Robustness) is at least a
and more likely THE design imperative of TCP, it's a quite severe
understatement merely to say that TCP wouldn't benefit from fake
(pre-fabricated relative to the destination) ACKs.

cheers, map

P.S.  The extreme undesirability of tampering with the end-to-end
acknowledgement of correctly received data is one of the major in-
principle objections to "translating/mapping gateways", b/t/w.
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