Looks a lot like Reliable Sockets <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/rocks/" rel="nofollow">http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/rocks/</a>
This is really neat. Its extendeding the concept of screen to the network in a transparent way. I am going to play with it with some of my more unstable hosts located in Beijing.
Reminds me of <a href="http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm</a>.