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From: Michael Brown
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 00:00

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In article <aVH8IHAhElm1EwOR@thefree.net>,
David James Spillett  <DJSpillett@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>In article <899283710.14732.0.nnrp-01.c30b3753@news.demon.co.uk>, Tony
>Finch <fanf@demon.net> writes
>>You cannot use multilink with Demon. When a login happens, any
>>existing call for the same nodename loses routeing, because it is
>>redirected to the new call. If you then drop the first call, the
>>second call will lose routeing, because you have logged out.
>
>Am I right in quessing that you could still send packages out via the
>'dead' connection... Could be useful for long uploads. Not that I have
>two lines, like.
Nope. TCP is a connection-oriented transport. For each packet, there is a confirmation packet sent back. The ftp client will fail.

M.
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From: m2brown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Michael Brown)
Subject: Re: Modem multilink under Linux
Date: 1998/07/06
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