Re: Some definitions (Was: Re: New issue 16: No packets fromother end?)

----- > 4.  Primary Address Pair
>
>     Contrary to SCTP which has a specific congestion avoidance design
>     suitable for multi-homing, IP-layer solutions need to avoid sending
>     packets concurrently over multiple paths; TCP behaves rather poorly
>     in such circumstances.  For this reason it is necessary to choose a
>     particular pair of addresses as the primary address pair which is
>     used until problems occur, at least for the same session.
>

Actually, SCTP doesn't send packets over multiple paths either. It uses the
addresses only for failover, that is when it detects a failure, it switches
to another address.