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   In sci.space.tech Joe Pfeiffer  wrote:   
   > Rick Jones  writes:   
   >> When someone suggested (or I interpreted them as suggesting) using   
   >> plain/bare IP, I took that to mean using the IP protocol field as   
   >> the only demux, hence a limit of 256 "endpoints/connections" at a   
   >> given IP address.   
      
   > That doesn't seem (to me) to be the right way to do it -- it would   
   > be a non-standard use of the field.   
      
   True, but there aren't too many other choices in a raw IP datagram :)   
      
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