In message <18979697.4665.1296772215500.javamail.r...@benjamin.baylink.com>, Ja y Ashworth writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> > > > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:01:52 EST, Jay Ashworth said: > > > > Ahem. Please quit confusing "the protocol" with "that small > > > > segment of > > > > the protocol we choose to allow/support on our network". > > > > > > Ahem. > > > > > > Please quit confusing "The Internet" with "my small edge network, > > > which I interconnect with The Internet". > > > > Corporations use a different version of RFC5321 that's 30% shorter and > > removes features they happen to not use? Or are they using the same > > RFC5321, but simply not using all the features? > > Probably the latter. > > C'mon; this isn't *your* first rodeo, either. From the viewpoint of > The Internet, *my edge router* is The Node -- as long as everything gets > to there ok, it's nunya damn business what I do inside. Only what > comes out. > > That's Why I Have A Router.
Routers don't mangle packets. They route packet and decrement hop counts. > Cheers, > -- jra > -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
