Method and system for providing connection handling

A communication system comprising:

• a platform configured to provide performance enhancing functions over connections established within the communication system, the platform supplying information and one or more spoofing parameters and a spoofing selection parameter for specifying a rule for applying the spoofing parameters, wherein the spoofing parameters include information for specifying whether spoofing is enabled for a selected one of the connections and priority information specifying priority treatment of the selected connection;
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• a spoofing apparatus communicating with the platform, the spoofing apparatus being configured to receive the information and the spoofing selection parameter and the spoofing parameters from the platform, wherein the spoofing apparatus has a profile that specifies spoofing selection parameter and the spoofing parameters, wherein the communication system is configured to route the information in accordance with the profile, the profile including a maximum segment size,
• wherein maximum segment size mismatch between the selected connection and a connection to an end host is compensated by dynamically resizing, based on the profile, data segments which comprise the information before forwarding the data segments to the end host.

A spoofing apparatus for routing information in a communication system that includes a platform configured to perform a plurality of performance enhancing functions over connections established within the communication system, the apparatus comprising:

• means for receiving the information and one or more spoofing parameters and a spoofing selection parameter for specifying a rule for applying the spoofing parameters, wherein the spoofing parameters include information for specifying whether spoofing is enabled for a selected one of the connections and priority information specifying priority treatment of the selected connection,
• means for maintaining a profile containing the spoofing selection parameter and the spoofing parameters, the profile including a maximum segment size;
• means for compensating for maximum segment size mismatch between the selected connection and a connection to an end host by dynamically resizing, based on the profile, data segments which comprise the information before forwarding the data segments to the end host;
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• means for routing the information in accordance with the profile.

A computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions for routing information in a communication system that comprises a platform and a spoofing apparatus configured to perform a plurality of performance enhancing functions, the one or more sequences of one or more instructions comprising instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to

• receiving the information from the platform and one or more spoofing parameters and a spoofing selection parameter for specifying a rule for applying the spoofing parameters, wherein the spoofing parameters include information for specifying whether spoofing is enabled for a selected one of the connections and priority information specifying priority treatment of the selected connection, wherein the spoofing apparatus maintains a profile that contains the spoofing selection parameter and the spoofing parameters;
• and to route the information in accordance with the profile, the profile including a maximum segment size;
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• compensate for maximum segment size mismatch between the selected connection and a connection to an end host by dynamically resizing, based on the profile, data segments which comprise the information before forwarding the data segments to the end host.