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The routing table issue

The routing table issue

Posted Jan 28, 2011 7:20 UTC (Fri) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: The routing table issue by foom
Parent article: LCA: IP address exhaustion and the end of the open net

That *possibly* could have even worked (with a lot of effort) if TCP supported multiple endpoints and transparently switched between them in real-time. But, it doesn't.

That is why they invented SCTP, which does all that and more. Perhaps too much even.


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