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To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
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Subject: Re: kern/5103 
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 08:22:48 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> wrote:
>Garrett told me that when you send this packet from the host you are 
>receiving it from, it does no harm. This would more or less support my
>idea that it is something different.

This is not true.  I've been doing my testing by sending packets from
the test box, and it behaves the same whether you send it from the test
box or send it from some other machine.

  Bill