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From: jas@BRUBECK.PROTEON.COM
Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: How to IP & ARP on 802 Nets
Message-ID: <8609040256.AA14578@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 14:27:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  2 14:27:27 1986
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There already was a blessed way to send IP packets over 802.2. The problem
was that the powers that be were NEVER going to provide a SAP for ARP,
so the IP SAP was useless. Once we had this scheme for ARP, we decided
to do IP that way to provide an even-length data-link header, and one the
same size as ARP. (DoD Internet is SAP '06'hex.)
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