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From: DCP@QUABBIN.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (David C. Plummer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  SLIP working group?
Message-ID: <19880331143135.6.DCP@SWAN.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 88 14:31:00 GMT
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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 88 17:59:24 EST
    From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)

    If the byte is 0x40 - 0x4F the packet is considered to be an IP packet
    and the protocol type byte IS INCLUDED as part of the packet.
    (Astute observers will realize that this is an IP Version Number of 4
    combined with all of the possible IP header lengths.)

Modular programmers and people who program generically will realize this
is a Rube Goldberg mentality and will barf.