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Sequence-as-Offset

First used: 1995

Definition

In Stateless TCP, the TCP sequence number is repurposed from a stream-position marker into a direct content offset: `offset = seq_number * BLOCK_SIZE`. The server reads a fixed-size block from the addressed file at that offset and sends it as TCP data, without maintaining any record of which blocks the client has already received.

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