On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Eliminate guarantee of delivery in link layer and let the various
> networking protocols handle their own sequences (In light of this, I
> would add that link layer should guarantee error-free packets to the
> networking layer(s)).
That assumes that the higher level protocols are datagram based and are
able to handle lost and out of sequence packets. This would cause problems
for things like ROSE which rely on L2 to do the hard work.
I have some very serious reservations about losing link layer reliablity.
> 73, de Nate >>
>
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