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TCP and PSM/EDRX

After a lot of thought about the issues with TCP under EDRX or PSM, I have a feature request.

I would like if the application layer could know when a TCP socket was sitting on out-of-order receive data or unacknowledged transmit data.

Obviously this shouldn't be reported immediately on either occurrence, but only after a time duration, probably configurable via nrf_setsockopt.

Ideally this could be reported by new bits in nrf_pollfd.

If the application layer knew this, it could disable EDRX/PSM or take other actions, to help the TCP socket recover before it times out or dies.

Related, I am also curious if the modem firmware team has any plans on supporting TCP keepalive or selective ACK.

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