Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!tektronix!teklds!cae780!amdcad!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!mit-xx.arpa!JNC From: JNC@MIT-XX.ARPA ("J. Noel Chiappa") Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: 802.2 SAP's Message-ID: <12155255551.28.JNC@MIT-XX.ARPA> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 09:52:58 EST Article-I.D.: MIT-XX.12155255551.28.JNC Posted: Wed Oct 30 09:52:58 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 08:15:46 EST References: <851029-163751-1872@Xerox> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 14 Approved: tcp-ip@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Yow! Can you say 'variable length wrappers'? (Those things give packet switches (routers) fits; unless you are prepared to copy data around, you can always think up wierd situations in which preallocated speace on the front of the buffer for construction of local headers isn't big enough.) How on Earth did they manage to use 64 numbers anyway? Does anyone have a list of the assigned numbers they could post? I'm wondering how long the edifice of computer networks will last before it collapses under the weight of its own complexity and braindamage, like some modern day Tower of Babel. Noel -------