one-to-many messaging

Ian Batten ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:17:22 +0100


On 16 Apr 08, at 1507, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>
> When the packet arrives on my machine, something in the bowels of  
> Solaris looks at the Port number and directs it to my sendmail  
> daemon. But that is not a "communication", because it all takes  
> place inside one piece of hardware. So it is not traffic data.

When the packet arrives on my NAT gateway, something in the bowels of  
IOS looks at the Port number and directs it to my sendmail machine.   
But that is a "communication", because it takes place between two  
pieces of hardware.  So it is traffic data.

ian