On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Tony Li wrote:
Mike,
If we were to seriously adopt the strategy of forwarding even when the destination appears down, it would be necessary to support this in the routing protocols to insure loop avoidance. This is not out of the realm of theoretical possibility. However, we're NOT there today.
I hope we never get there. Mike
Tony
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