[mosh-devel] MOSH reminiscent of SCTP?

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 08:38:56PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2013-May-24 10:02:02 +0200, "Rick van Rein (OpenFortress)" <rick at openfortress.nl> wrote:
> > What surprises me however, is that there is no mention at all of SCTP,
> >which seems very similar to what MOSH does, at least conceptually -- it
> >can move a node to another IP and continue its work.
> 
> They aren't really that similar:
>              client IP               server IP
> MOSH         arbitrary              single fixed
> SCTP   multiple pre-arranged    multiple pre-arranged
> 
> The power of MOSH is that it doesn't care about the client IP address -
> which is good in a roaming environment - especially when the client can
> wind up with an arbitrary address.

That's true. Nevertheless could the possibility of using multiple
pre-arranged server IPs probably help with the IPv4 to IPv6 protocol
switch help issue...

		Kind regards, Axel
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