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From: JNC@MIT-XX.ARPA ("J. Noel Chiappa")
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Subject: Re: 802.2 SAP's
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 09:52:58 EST
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	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
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