Earlier, Bill Herrin wrote: % The hitch is, it requires that all applications abandon the TCP and % UDP protocols and APIs, in favor of an API where the app requests % communication by name instead of by address and lets the host keep % track of which addresses currently associate with that name.
There are several ways to change IP address while keeping a TCP/UDP session alive, some already discussed within this RG, that do NOT have the constraint that you outline above. Purely as one (of several) example(s), SCTP's approach to multi-homing is deployed now, works, and can be adopted into TCP (and/or UDP) in a backwards-compatible, incrementally-deployable, manner. Cheers, Ran -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
