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From: greene@coral.com (Jeremy Greene)
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Subject: Token Ring ARPs
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) I don't think this is the "research community".  Instead, I think it is
) primarily commercial companies which "believe" in multi-media "bridges"
) instead of "routers".

I agree that, because of ARP, bridges highlight the multi-media problem.
But what about other applications, say for  network management, which
also send MAC addresses in data? A router presents the same problem as
a brigde in this case. It makes a lot of sense to start now in making
sure we do not propagate the mistake made in 1042. Of course, then 1042
implementations would most likely eventually have to be changed... so 
why not now?

Dose 1042 actual say to use wire order? I couldn't find it.

JAG