[HECnet] Connections?

[Robert Armstrong]

>It's TCP. It's always point to point. There are no broadcast ability in 
>TCP. However, there is nothing preventing you to have multiple TCP 
>connections with the same local port. It's still separate connections.

  Fair enough, but your application which listen() for connections has to decide whether it will accept() more than one.  If your MUltinet DECNet tunnel thingie only accepts one, then by definition you can only have one connection per TCP/IP port.  If it accepts more than one, then how does it know which DECnet node is on the other end of each one?  More importantly, how does DECnet deal with that??

  If a single instance of your Multinet DECnet over IP tunnel driver can talk to more than one remote client at once, then you have a single DECnet circuit with multiple adjacencies on the other end.  This is like Ethernet, not a point to point circuit.  How does DECnet deal with that?

Bob