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From: braden@VENERA.ISI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Whose source route wins in TCP connections?
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Date: 19 Feb 91 19:01:04 GMT
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	At the passive end, the active's source route is known to work (it got the
	packet there, after all), and so the incoming source route should override
	anything the application specified.  If the active end got a response,
	their initial route worked, and they should ignore anything that comes
	back, in case some really quirky asymmetric routing situation required
	that humans intervene on the passive side to make it work...

	James B. VanBokkelen		26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA  01880
	FTP Software Inc.		voice: (617) 246-0900  fax: (617) 246-0901

Thanks, James, as always you said it better than I did!

Bob