3 Oct
2019
3 Oct
'19
2:14 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:12 PM Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
George Michaelson wrote:
Or, why we even have SRC in the header: it does not inform routing.
Primarily for ICMP.
Could look inside beyond first header state to see DST as payload. optimisation for ICMP feels like premature optimisation. But, its semi-rational. Frag which dropped this, was going to make IP difficult for any real use anyway, not bothered by the corner-case breaks. Coulda Woulda Shoulda -G