Source address (offtopic)

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Subject: Source address (offtopic)
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald at Alvestrand.no>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:21:18 +0200
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At 14:01 12.04.2000 -0400, Dick St.Peters wrote:

Would you settle for "The IP spec authors didn't have enough foresight
to foresee a need to rewrite source addresses" ? :)

My standard architectural wish-it-could-be-changed:

The source address of a datagram was an architectural mistake, and should never have been in the mandatory packet format.

                  Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand at edb.maxware.no

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