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A technique used to reduce network overhead, especially in
Some network
protocols send frequent packets for management
messages. In a
WAN this can introduce significant overhead,
due to the typically smaller
bandwidth of WAN connections.
Spoofing reduces the required bandwidth by having devices,
This fools (spoofs) the
LAN device into thinking the remote
LAN is still connected, even though it's not. The spoofing
saves the WAN bandwidth, because no packet is ever sent out on
the WAN.
LAN
protocols today do not yet accommodate spoofing easily.
["Network Spoofing" by Jeffrey Fritz, BYTE, December 1994,
pages 221 - 224].
(1995-01-13)