Re: An idea: GxSE

[Mohan Parthasarathy <Mohan.Parthasarathy@eng.sun.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?
>
In SCTP, i think you have to know all the addresses at the beginning
of the connection. Here, the new address is not known until
renumbering happens.

-mohan

> -Taz
> 
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>       and conservative in what you send."
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