[IRCServices] New IRC protocol revised

[Andrew Church]

>If I read this correctly this new protocol will allow more than one
>connection to the same server at the same time?

     Yes.

>... if so how will Jupes be handled? ...

     You won't be able to do them the way you do now; you'd need to
modify servers' configurations and/or add a new command to keep a server
out.

     Come to think of it, this does raise an interesting problem where a
server connects with the same name and ID as another server already on
the network, causing some/all messages to that server to be misdirected.
Maybe we need a remote address check on duplicate connections (which
would allow jupes to work again).

>and how will the network know which way to send data, so that
>the server that is connected more than once don't receive it's data from
>more than one source?

     This is described in section 1.6.

>With DSL growing so popular the end user portion is already gorwing "more
>stable". :)

     Tell that to one of my friends on EsperNet who delinked his server
because his DSL connection was so unstable.

     Also remember that stability is not just the end-user-to-uplink
connection, but all the routers on the paths between the servers/clients--
it's actually the latter part that worries me the most.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at dragonfire.net
    http://achurch.dragonfire.net/
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