Re: multiple TCP connections

[csapuntz@cisco.com]

"Lyndon Ong" <long@nortelnetworks.com> writes:

> We recently completed work on a transport protocol with multi-homing 
> support, plus support for multiple information streams within one 
> session.  If this might be of interest (it was built for transport of 
> signaling and control messaging) folks can find it at 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sigtran-sctp-13.txt .  It 
> was recently approved as a Proposed Standard and is on the RFC editor's queue.

One of the features of the iSCSI is that a session that involves multiple
connections can be spread across multiple iSCSI accelerators cards with very
little need for co-ordination between the cards.

My impression was that this would be more difficult with SCTP, but I'm
open to correction here.

-Costa