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Subject: Re: Are simultaneous TCP opens useful?
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 00:42:00 EDT
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Distributed systems with symmetric processes that automatically seek
to link to each other (no master/slave relationship) would use the
simul-OPEN style. It was designed into TCP for that purpose; I do not
know, however, whether any actual applications have made use of this
feature.

Vint