5 May
2025
5 May
'25
4:37 a.m.
Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2025-05-04 19:43:
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
Indeed. Some kind of specialized bridge interface to route all traffic up both WAN links to dedicated endpoints (plural) that acted as a proxy, reassembling the traffic and sending it on. And then taking the return traffic, sending it in duplicate to two streams to the client. This cannot (IMHO) be a package in a repo, but needs an endpoint service running too. Never heard of such a thing should it exist.