RFC 814 · INFORMATIONAL · 1982 TUE · 15 SEP 2026

Name, addresses, ports, and routes

By D.D. Clark · Published July 1982 · DOI 10.17487/RFC0814

Overview

RFC 814, “Name, addresses, ports, and routes”, is an Informational document published in July 1982 by D.D. Clark. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This RFC gives suggestions and guidance for the design of the tables and algorithms necessary to keep track of these various sorts of identifiers inside a host implementation of TCP/IP.

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