{"draft":"","doc_id":"RFC0875","title":" Gateways, architectures, and heffalumps ","authors":["M.A. Padlipsky"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"10","pub_status":"UNKNOWN","status":"UNKNOWN","source":"Legacy","abstract":" This RFC is a discussion about the role of gateways in an internetwork, especially the problems of translating or mapping protocols between different protocol suites. The discussion notes possible functionality mis-matches, undesirable routing \"singularity points\", flow control issues, and high cost of translating gateways. Originally published as M82-51 by the MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts. ","pub_date":"September 1982","keywords":[" "],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC0875","errata_url":null}