Re: TTL Uses ???

bound@zk3.dec.com Fri, 14 January 1994 23:07 UTC

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To: Steve Deering <deering@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: TTL Uses ???
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 17:09:59 -0500
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Steve and all responders,

Thanks for the responses it made things more clear.  I think we are
moving much up to the transport.  Another example is PMTU Discovery. I
am designing a Host now that completely will use PMTU in a lab
environment.  But NFS and a well known database application use UDP and
insist on big packets.  I am covering it at the transport layer.  

thanks again,
/jim