Re: A tunneling proposal

[Ramakrishna Gummadi <ramki@cs.berkeley.edu>]

For most applications, what you say is true. But given that SCTP was first
devised for SS7 signaling where operator alerts, log generation, etc. may
be required, I can sympathize with this design...

-ramki

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Tony Li wrote:

>
>  | In SCTP, it is the job of the app to be feed the transport with a list of
>  | correct globally routable destination addresses, and be prepared to
>  | receive error notifications after an address fails.
>
>
> I don't mean to be a pedantic layerist, but it seems to me that the network
> and transport layers probably should keep the multihoming problems out of
> the hands of the applications.
>
> Tony
>