Re: An idea: GxSE

["Jon (Taz) Mischo" <taz@tazlore.com>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> Making a TCP session use multiple addresses would be a possibility. An
> option to negotiate extra IP addresses for a stream would certainly make
> TCP more complex but this could be reasonably backward compatible, it
> wouldn't require any changes in the IP layer or the routers and as a bonus
> it would allow multiple paths to be used concurrently for extra bandwidth.

Why not just use SCTP?  Why reinvent the wheel?

-Taz

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