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When to send an immediate ACK
Upon receipt of a previously missing packet. This is an alternative to #318 that reuses Largest Acked. Fixes #304
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reset the max_ack_delay timer and Ack-Eliciting Threshold counter (as any ACK
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would do).
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When an ack-eliciting packet is received with a packet number less than
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Largest Acked, this still triggers an immediate acknowledgement in an effort to
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avoid the packet being spuriously declared lost.
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See {{examples}} for examples explaining this behavior. See {{set-threshold}}
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for guidance on how to choose the reordering threshold value when sending
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ACK_FREQUENCY frames.

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