Excerpts from Toni Stoev on Sat, Aug 15, 2009 11:23:53PM +0300: > "Why should it be simple when it can be complex?" -- Folklore > > You are reading your email off your portable computer and you have a > constantly updated weather map on your desktop. You may be chatting through > an instant messaging service and may be listening to live-streamed audio, and > may start talking on the computer videophone. > You move to a different room, so you unplug your network cable, and you know > a wireless link will keep those communications running. > Your local router has to realize the situation and stop transmitting > communications packets to the cable interface and start transmitting them to > the computer's wireless interface, and any broken sessions have to be > re-established with remote servers. > You are the same person using the same network services on your same computer > through your same router, but you experience service slowdown or even need to > reinitiate some of the communications. Why?
Your local router doesn't have to solve this problem. It's end-to-end, and each of those flows may have a different solution. Some like the weather map may be solved in the application. You might find this interesting: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/multipathtcp/current/maillist.html (for multipath SCTP see the TSVarea list) _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
