[136648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Feb 3 18:59:28 2011
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 18:59:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110203234441.1A2CB9A9DE4@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>
[ me, to Valdis: ]
> > C'mon; this isn't *your* first rodeo, either. From the viewpoint of
> > The Internet, *my edge router* is The Node -- as long as everything
> > gets to there ok, it's nunya damn business what I do inside. Only what
> > comes out.
> >
> > That's Why I Have A Router.
>
> Routers don't mangle packets. They route packet and decrement hop
> counts.
I will remind you, Mark, that routers were originally called *gateways*.
That was for a reason.
Cheers,
-- jra
