[svlug] Silicon Valley Wireless Linux Network

[Nick Moffitt]

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 javilk at polly.mall-net.com wrote:

>     Uh... isn't TCP/IP sort of a routing protocol in some respects?
>     With no deterministic single delivery path?

:set pedantic
	
	IP is a routing protocol.  It determines where the packets
(made by TCP) will go.  TCP is not a routing protocol in any respect.
Actually, there's no such thing as a "TCP/IP packet".  A TCP packet
wrapped in an IP header is usually called a "frame" (correct me if I'm
wrong on this one, folks).

:set nopedantic

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