Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: fragmenting broadcasts Message-ID: <1989May3.175625.6782@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <8904291828.AA18506@poincare.geom.umn.edu> <66@jove.dec.com> <1041@fxgrp.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3 May 89 17:56:25 GMT In article <1041@fxgrp.UUCP> mr-frog@fxgrp.UUCP (Dave Pare) writes: >Given that I know what I'm doing, and that every host really and truly >does want to see almost all the data broadcast, can people understand >why I am perturbed by the limitation on the size of my broadcast >transmissions? I think you have made a very good case for why you are a special case and should deliberately exceed the Host Requirements. I don't think you've made a particularly good case for a general relaxation of the rules, given that your situation would seem to be quite unusual. -- Mars in 1980s: USSR, 2 tries, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 2 failures; USA, 0 tries. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu