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Re: Maximum Prefix Limit

Enke Chen <enke@redback.com> Wed, 16 January 2002 22:17 UTC

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To: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
Cc: Manav Bhatia <mnvbhatia@yahoo.com>, idr@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Maximum Prefix Limit
In-Reply-To: Message from Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com> of "Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:35:29 EST." <20020116103528.A18433@nexthop.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:16:56 -0800
From: Enke Chen <enke@redback.com>
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Hi, Jeff:

> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:35:29 -0500
> From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
> To: Manav Bhatia <mnvbhatia@yahoo.com>
> Cc: idr@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Maximum Prefix Limit
> Message-ID: <20020116103528.A18433@nexthop.com>
> References: <03b001c19e4e$aa86e750$b4036c6b@Manav>

[snip]

> Enke,
> 
> MPBGP's NLRI sends AFI,SAFI as a 3 octet field.  The capability
> advertisement version sends it as 4 octets with the third octet
> being "reserved".

Please note that the Graceful Restart draft also uses 3 bytes.

> 
> Did we want to reserve the space in the notification data for
> the "reserved" portion or just stick to what we have in the NLRI?

The extra byte is not needed.

-- Enke

> 
> > Manav
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Haas 
> NextHop Technologies

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