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Source address (offtopic)

2000-04-12 14:30:02
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
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