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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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