0 0 votes true or false smtp packet follow the same route from sender to receiver Computer Networks + – eyeamgj 1.2k views answer comment Share Follow Print See all 7 Comments 7 7 Comments reply aambazinga commented Dec 4, 2018 reply Follow flag i don't know exactly, but what know is messages are sent from sending to the receiving message transfer agent in a single hop. i guess this implies that it follows the same route. 0 0 replyShare eyeamgj commented Dec 4, 2018 reply Follow flag What i am thinking is that smtp uses tcp and tcp dont bother about routes so smtp also hence false statement....... 0 0 replyShare aambazinga commented Dec 4, 2018 reply Follow flag but what about "transfer in a single hop"? this is written in tannenbum. i don't know too.. i'm just asking 0 0 replyShare eyeamgj commented Dec 4, 2018 reply Follow flag dont know but guessing it means there is nothing in between source and destination 0 0 replyShare aambazinga commented Dec 4, 2018 reply Follow flag doesn't that means that they follow the same route? because smtp uses TCP, which establishes connection before sending data, and if there is single hop, then automatically messages follow the same route. 0 0 replyShare eyeamgj commented Dec 4, 2018 reply Follow flag but that connection is different from connection in network layer where host to host ios connected and in tcp process to process communication is there so i think tcp dont know about physical routes 0 0 replyShare Swapnil Naik commented Dec 9, 2018 reply Follow flag https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821 I came to know they were using source routing, where you can specify entire source to destination path address. Was the answer True? 0 0 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.
