On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In einer eMail vom 04.07.2008 17:38:59 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> After all, I'm not "3005 Crane Drive," I'm "William Herrin." And the >> post office can deliver mail to "3005 Crane Drive" without knowing >> whether it's intended for "William Herrin." > > ..and may even do so as long as "3005 Crane Drive" exists - even after > "William Herrin" has moved to another place!
That's a problem for the layer-4 retry algorithm. Finding someone who has moved isn't really layer 3's job. Layer 3's job is just getting the packet to the specified location. -Bill -- William D. Herrin ................ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
