PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville") (11/11/87)
I'm currently looking into the problem of a standard for IP over ARCnet. Some of the problems are trivial, such as mapping local IP addresses to 8-bit node numbers; others are more involved: ARCNet has an MTU of 508 bytes, and does not like packets between 253 and 256 bytes. Would all persons interested in such a standard or willing to lend their expertise please contact me. Sorry to bother everyone else, but I thought the Subject: was self-explanatory... Thanks, -Philip
PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville") (11/11/87)
I'm currently looking into the problem of a standard for IP over ARCnet. Some of the problems are trivial, such as mapping local IP addresses to 8-bit node numbers; others are more involved: ARCNet has an MTU of 508 bytes, and does not like packets between 253 and 256 bytes. Would all persons interested in such a standard or willing to lend their expertise please contact me. Sorry to bother everyone else, but I thought the Subject: was self-explanatory... Thanks, -Philip
mcc@ETN-WLV.EATON.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett) (11/17/87)
Saw the message once--didn't need to see it again. I don't know which is worse- -messages taking forever to traverse the network or receiving the same message twice. Why don't we make all message traffic slow (Electronic Snail) and then eliminate the redundancy feature. Perhaps I should "biff n" to avoid the "Noyed". Maybe we should add a new item to the TCP/IP jargon list: Noyed (n): duplicate message or packet. Annoyed (v): the feeling one gets when one receives a noyed. Merton Campbell Crockett