[1761] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: An interesting question from can.canet.d
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jeff@nsipo.nasa.gov)
Tue Dec 17 04:49:07 1991
To: jqj@phloem.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson)
Cc: jeff@nsipo.nasa.gov, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 91 06:39:24 PST."
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 01:47:44 -0800
From: jeff@nsipo.nasa.gov
JQ,
I believe that the idea the RREQ group had was to have a
mechanism for a router which is filtering packets to a
particular IP network or host to be able to send back an
ICMP message so you atleast have some idea why things
appear broken.
As far as I know, this has nothing to do with policy based routing.
This is merely an attempt to take some of the mystery out of
the Internet when things don't work.
Thanks,
Jeff
