Re: RFC 1812, section 4.2.2.5

Frank Kastenholz <kasten@ftp.com> Fri, 15 September 1995 12:54 UTC

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my recollection is the same as yours

 > which is to say, interpretation 1. My recollection was that there was major
 > debate here, with my current employer among those whose implementations
 > were of version 2 ("the end system is going to check it, and routing has
 > developed a spanning tree, so why should the router check it?") and that
 > interpretation lost.
 > 
 > Does anyone have other recollections or opinions?


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