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“K16304” — 2012/11/19 — 9:15
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1.4 Multihoming and Multipath Support Outside SCTP
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mainstream Linux distributions), the lack of a properly designed session layer in the
TCP/IP protocol stack which forces applications to state what protocol they need
at the transport layer upon opening a socket (and thus requiring applications to be
rebuilt for explicit SCTP support).
Such lack of interest is all the more conspicuous if one looks at the current coex-
istence of heterogeneous wireless networks and at the development, by many manu-
factures, of dual-mode or multimode handsets. One may naturally wonder if, given
this trend, other technologies are under development, or are mature enough, to of-
fer multihoming and multipath support. It is therefore ...