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Status:

UNKNOWN

Author:

Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures Task Force

Stream:

[Legacy]

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC0940

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Abstract

Several sites now contain a complex of local links connected to the Internet via a gateway. The details of the internal connectivity are of little interest to the rest of the Internet. One way of organizing these local complexes of links is to use the same strategy as the Internet uses to organize networks, that is, to declare each link to be an entity (like a network) and to interconnect the links with devices that perform routing functions (like gateways). This general scheme is called subnetting, the individual links are called subnets, and the connecting devices are called subgateways (or bridges, or gateways). This RFC discusses standardizing the protocol used in subnetted environments in the ARPA-Internet.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.