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From: jbreeden@netcom.COM (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: LAT vs telnet
Message-ID: <1991May8.143806.21987@netcom.COM>
Date: 8 May 91 14:38:06 GMT
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In article <9105072303.AA00610@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM> mcc@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett) writes:
>->2. LAT doesn't work through routers, but so what.
>
>      Works here!  Must be something wrong with your router.
>

Wow, Puff The Magic Router !!! (-: I think you mean it works through a
bridge (and that's prob what you've got). LAT has no network layer (it's
just a MAC frame stuffed with data) and therefore has no info in the
datagram that will allow routing.

-- 
 John Robert Breeden, 
    jbreeden@netcom.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden
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