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We had that in the early days of TCP. Then Berkeley broke it.

Originally, an IP address identified a destination host, not an interface card. Didn't matter over what device a packet arrived. The BSD people, though, tied IP addresses to the network interface, so it mattered over which device a packet arrived. This simplified outbound routing in BSD, but broke multipath TCP.

parent Animats 7 years ago

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