[ih] UDP Length Field?

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Jack Haverty

    > the ARPANET managers (at DCA and BBN) were extremely reluctant to permit
    > hosts (e.g., gateways) to use that mode, for fear that the uncontrolled
    > traffic would crash the ARPANET.

The irony, of course, is that some years afterward, we managed to crash the
ARPANET _without_ use of type 3 packets. So Van then had to invent TCP
congestion control...

	   Noel