TCP optimization

[Diego Woitasen]

Hi,
 In one of the customers where I'm going to implement Wanproxy we are
discussing about developing on-disk storage and tcp optimization.
On-disk storage was already discussed on this list, now I was to start
a discussion about TCP optimization.

 Wanproxy optimizes the amount of data transferred right now, but one
of the biggest problems of some WAN connections is the latency
(Satellite specially). I was thinking about a method to improve TCP
using pools of connections.  Right now the Wanproxy client connects to
the Wanproxy server when it receives a TCP connection. I think that we
could improve the performance having a pool of idle TCP connections.
When a connection is established to the Wanproxy client, it finds a
free connection and use it. Then the connection could be closed and a
new one could be established to keep always the same numbers idle
ones. Or may be we could not close it and to be reused.

In the past I worked in a consultancy job where I developed a proof of
concept of the described above and there results were great.

What do you think?

Regards,
 Diego

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Diego Woitasen