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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2001 14:50:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using connect() on UDP RPC client sockets.
Message-ID:  <200105211850.OAA09062@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010520184033.A83645@tp.databus.com>
References:  <200105202256.aa30752@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20010520184033.A83645@tp.databus.com>

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<<On Sun, 20 May 2001 18:40:33 -0400, Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> said:

> Where an RFC mandates that the reply source address must be the same
> as the request dest addr

This is true for *any* protocol built over IP, regardless of what the
individual protocol specifications say.  See RFC 1122 sections
3.3.4.2, 4.1.3.5, and 4.2.3.7.  (It actually says ``SHOULD'' in the
first two sections, which translates as ``you'd better have a damn
good reason not to''.)

-GAWollman


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