NODE e603acf6Re: DC-nets, up from the basic concept
pierre@shell.portal.com (Pierre Uszynski)Tue, 26 Oct 93 15:52:45 PDT
> You could (maaaybe :-( establish the layering:
>
> Coaxial - Ethernet - IP - TCP / Telnet - RFC822 email -
> PEM - DC-net - IP - TCP / Telnet - RFC822 email - PEM
Before somebody takes the above tooooo seriously, I'll add
that it would take major work to modify TCP/IP to function
as the second "TCP/IP" layer in the example above. This is
because TCP/IP relies on dialogs between machines/nets
instead of broadcasts (at least at the internetwork level),
so messages should be traceable back to an inter-DC-net
"table", but could not be traced back to a specific host.
Pierre
pierre@shell.portal.com