| | Upgrading and Repairing Networks -- Ch 15 -- Routers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | On top of everything else that the transport layer must deal with, it is at once concierge, traffic cop, and native guide of and between networks. |
 | | If that counter reaches the maximum allowed value for the protocol in use, a problem with the path or the message itself is assumed, further efforts to deliver the packet are dropped, and the packet itself is discarded. |
 | | As important as the protocols it translates and the ways in which it decides upon routes is a router's ability to prioritize tasks. |
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