circuit recovery

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 07:38:23PM -0800, Glymr Darkmoon wrote:
> hey, i use irc a lot via tor, and one of the things which has been
> bugging me endlessly is when circuits die
> 
> is there some reason why, unless exit nodes die, that a new circuit
> ending in the same exit could not resume the same connection stream?
> 
> having persistent connections able to switch paths while still connected
> would be immensely useful

I've just fleshed out the FAQ entry on this:
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#MigrateStreams

Thanks for the nudge.
--Roger