Re: Transport level multihoming

[Peter Tattam <peter@jazz-1.trumpet.com.au>]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Greg Maxwell wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Peter Tattam wrote:
> 
> > Not necessarily.  You just need enough address information to hook into the
> > peer.  With my idea, any additional addresses can be exchanged at SYN/ACK
> > time.
> 
> If you only know one path to reach the other system, what happens if that
> path goes down before you tack up a connection?
> 
> 
> 

It would be foolhardy to expect that such a scenario work well.  I would
suggest "sufficient" information for a connection to be visible at the time of
the exchange.  The lists need not be identical, but in practice may be.

Peter

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