Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>

    >> Another option, now that I think about it, though, is a TCP option
    >> which contained the service name - one well-known port would be the
    >> "demux port", and which actual application you connected to would
    >> depend on the value in the TCP option.

    > Like tcpmux, port 1, RFC 1078?

You know, as I was typing that, I was thinking "I'll bet someone has something
that does this, and I just don't know about it, and I'm going to look dumb as
toast"... Sigh... :-)

Which leaves us the obvious question: why aren't more people using TCPMux, if
it already exists?

	Noel

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