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From: srg@quick.COM (Spencer Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Dumb vs. smart host routing
Message-ID: <226@quick.COM>
Date: 18 May 88 08:15:19 GMT
References: <8805140446.AA04773@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Quicksilver Engineering, Seattle
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Why can't a host just ARP for any destination and expect the
appropriate gateway(s) to answer?  If there were a hopcount
field in the ARP record, I think this would solve all the problems.