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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Using connect() on UDP RPC client sockets.
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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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