non-zero total path attribute length

Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com> Mon, 23 December 1996 16:46 UTC

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Subject: non-zero total path attribute length
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 96 08:15:08 PST
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
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Folks,

I'd like to poll *the folks who implemented BGP-4* to find
whether their implementations could tolerate an UPDATE
message with non-zero Total Path Attribute Length, but
with no NLRI included (another words, the message contains
some of the path attributes, but contains no NLRI at all).

Please reply directly to me - I'll summarize the replies
and post the summary to the list.

Yakov.