On 2025-05-04 19:07, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
It sent the exact same stream of data down both Rogers and Bell lines. If a packet got dropped, it was replaced by the copy from the other vendor.
This handled censorship, bad cables and outages.
But who was it? I can see him in my mind...
--dave
This would be a really hard thing to do since you would need to make sure that both the outbound and inbound paths are diverse. It would require the sender having their data sourced from 2 different network addresses with one setup so that the traffic back comes through bell and the other setup so that the traffic comes from rogers. At that point 2 different IP addresses would end up creating 2 seperate TCP sessions. If it was just duplicating packets down the different paths that could really screw up TCP by it getting duplicate packets out of order. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || home: (905)513-7688 alvin@netvel.net ||