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From: mo@prisma.UUCP (Mike O'Dell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Your router's behaviour
Message-ID: <8901061621.AA08225@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 6 Jan 89 15:48:19 GMT
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I would argue in the strongest possible terms that
is purely and simply broken.  UNREACHABLE messages
imply some kind of real failure or pathology (congestion),
not that someone simply hasn't gotten an ARP back.
I understand that they may not want to hang on to a packet
because of buffering, so they can simply drop it silently.
Telling someone the host is unreachable is simply not true
in your example.

	-Mike O'Dell