persistent connections through IP address changes

I would like to have my TCP/IP connections be maintained while picking up multiple wifi hotspots during my commute. My main concern is not to have to re-authenticate myself when I roam to another hotspot.

I saw a solution on Linux using ethertap and a proxy to transmit UDP packets from a client machine to a server.

I'd like the same thing but with a Windows XP as a client machine. (I have a Linux machine available on the internet that may run a publicly-accessible service.)

Does such a thing exist? It seems like a common enough problem and seems like a somewhat simple program to write.

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Posted 5 years ago by Robert in Wireless Networking

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