[OLSR-users] network problems

[Andreas Tønnesen]

Andrew Hodel wrote:
> One question I am still wondering, which is a more of a network
> question: would a route change cause a stream (ssh, aol, download) to
> die.  It seems true?

No. end-to-end transport protocols such as TCP are not affected by route
changes, in fact in IP you have no guarantee that packets in a TCP
stream are all routed the same path.
This is, ofcause, as long as one dosn't break the end-to-end principle
by introducing something like NAT.

- Andreas


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