On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Andrew Brown wrote:

# Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 01:27:49 -0500
# From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
# To: current-users@netbsd.org
# Subject: protocol numbers
# 
# is there any reason why /etc/protocols doesn't include more of the
# protocols from
# 
#    http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/protocol-numbers
# 
# sure, some of them are a little outdated, but there are others there
# that are in use but aren't listed in /etc/protocols, eg 88.  that's
# eigrp according to the iana list, and i get that stuff from my isp
# periodically.  dunno why...but that's not really the point.
# 
# it's only an 8 bit field, after all, so the list ought not to get too

um, 16-bit?

[Last I looked, 511 > 255 by a filled binary order of magnitude.]

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