PP Presentation

• The network addresses made available tot he transport layer should use a uniform numbering plan, even across LANs and WANs.

Controversy: connectionless service vs. connection oriented post office vs. telephones

ARPA Internet community (20 years experience) says that the subnet is unreliable -> hosts do error and flow control and connectionless service is provided. Each packet must carry the full destination address.

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