Re: Modem multilink under Linux

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From: Ian Stirling
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 00:00

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In mygroup.misc 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. For each packet, there is a confirmation packet sent back. The ftp client will fail.

Not if the inbound packets are routed via the other modem.

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From: Ian Stirling <000035A15C68.NO_UCE@mauve.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Modem multilink under Linux
Date: 1998/07/07
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