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   From: pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu   
      
   Rick Jones  writes:   
      
   > 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 :)   
      
   Good point -- I guess I wasn't really believing in raw IP (in spite of   
   what the poster had said).  I was imagining a custom protocol of some   
   sort on top of IP.   
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