Re: Network layer reqt? [was Re: Transport level multihoming]

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Greg;

> > You miss the point.
> > 
> > > > Most TCP applications are so stateful that they can not accept a
> > > > loss of bytes.
> > 
> > Neither SVC nor TCP reconnection restores lost data.
> 
> No. But today, connections with TCP/IPv4 and typical IP multi-homing get
> dropped and data gets lost when the prefered path fails. Traffic is lost
> until the routing reconverges which is usually long enough to back TCP off
> into oblivion.

You are not saying reconnection is good enough but saying reconnection
is unnecessary.

That's not a Brian's point.

Note also that you are assuming large, thus, slow to converge,
routing table.

							Masataka Ohta