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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 1996 10:54:05 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, wollman@freefall.freebsd.org (Garrett Wollman), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_input.c ip_output.c raw_ip.c 
Message-ID:  <9610081454.AA12932@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610072111.OAA20837@root.com>
References:  <199610071934.UAA28629@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199610072111.OAA20837@root.com>

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<<On Mon, 07 Oct 1996 14:11:54 -0700, David Greenman <dg@root.com> said:

>    In my opinion it should be removed. The only reason one might
> keep it would be as sort of "reference" for implementing large IP
> addresses (TUBA = "TCP/UDP with Big Addresses"), but the TUBA
> proposal is clearly not what the Internet is going to in the
> future. I think the code is dead weight and only serves to make the
> 'real' code more difficult to follow and maintain.

I would be quite happy to see it go.  However, if Paul Traina or his
company is interested in it, then I would keep it around so long as
it's maintained.

-GAWollman

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