In message <4680378.4717.1296777587916.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>, Jay Ashworth writes:
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From: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>
[ me, to Valdis: ]
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.
I will remind you, Mark, that routers were originally called *gateways*.
And they didn't mangle packets. You either pass through a gateway or not. You don't have your internal organs re-arranged as you go through.
That was for a reason.
Cheers, -- jra
-- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org