In message <18979697.4665.1296772215500.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>, Ja y Ashworth writes:
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From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@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
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