Re: [Ips] Data Segment Padding

<Black_David@emc.com> Fri, 09 October 2009 06:45 UTC

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No, padding is not supported (e.g., breaks data digests).
 
RFC 3720 has this to say in Section 10.7.7 which strongly
recommends 4-byte alignment of data segment boundaries:
The Data Segments of Data-In and Data-Out PDUs SHOULD be filled to the
integer number of 4 byte words (real payload) unless the F bit is set to
1.

Thanks,
--David

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	From: ips-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ips-bounces@ietf.org] On
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	Subject: [Ips] Data Segment Padding
	
	
	Hi , is it possible to send the middle part of a sequence of
DATA-OUT with data segment padding to 4 bytes boundary ? Many thanks.