At 15:14 17/03/2001 -0700, Vernon Schryver wrote:
>] That's my reason to use the TTL decrement; if someone shows me a device
>] where a packet comes in on one interface with a certain TTL, and it comes
>] out on another interface with a lower TTL but no other significant changes,
>] I call it a router.
>]
>] If it is incapable of not doing other significant damage, I call it an
>] application layer gateway, a NAT box, or something else, but not a router.
>
>What about the changes to the IP header required to deal with an
>IP record-route option?
if it's incapable of dealing with a datagram that does not have a
record-route option, it is indeed a strange beast :-)
> There seem to be three types of routers:
> 1. those that deal with LSRR and RR options correctly
> 2. those that mess them up, including generating pure garbage IP packets
> 3. those that ignore them.
>As far as I can tell, Type 1 and Type 2 are each more common than Type 3.
the field of Internet-connected boxes can be divided into 3 types of devices:
- Correctly functioning routers (conforming to full RFC 1812 and friends)
- Buggy routers (including your cat 2 and 3 above)
- Non-routers
Some people surmise that the first category is empty....
note: I have not yet found anything that allows me to tell the difference
between a switch and something that is not a switch. That is one reason why
I prefer to avoid the term.
metanote: the field of categorizations can be divided into two categories:
- those that are useful
- those that are useless
the last category is demonstrably larger than the first.....
metametanote: the categorization above may be a member of its second category.
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