That's the idea behind any distributed network. If you drove a pole
into your head, you will cause damage, but you would still be able
to live, unless you hit one of a number of critical 'network hubs'
>Gang, the tcp-ip protocol was designed to survive a nuclear war.
Assuming
>there is ANY connectivity going around a hypothetically
disrupted/destroyed
>major network hub, the packets should find it. Of course that link
won't
>handle the bandwidth, but in theory the net would still *work*.
>--
>Jim Strickland
>jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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