[ih] order of source and destination address in IP header

[Dave Crocker]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:50:00 -0500, Craig Partridge wrote:
>  IP's fragmentation model requires a source address.

ahh, yes.  now i remember that i was told that the ultimate rationale for 
having fragmentation -- rather than simply requiring each network that does 
fragmentation in the inbound side do reassembly on the outbound side -- was 
because of the last hop -- TO THE RECIPIENT END-SYSTEM.  In other words, 
fragmentation could not be restricted to relaying components.

yet-another indication that all this was an end-to-end overlay.


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