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In article <Evou8x.8vG@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
Michael Brown <m2brown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>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.

True, but there's no requirement for it to be a connection via a single
route.  It's perfectly possible (although very unlikely) to have a TCP
connection where no two IP packets follow the same route from A to B.

>For each packet, there is a confirmation packet sent back.

Correct, but the confirmation packet doesn't have to go back the same
way as the original came.

>The ftp client will fail.

Probably, but not for the reasons stated.

John
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