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Re: [middisc] TCP middlebox option requirements

Andrew Knutsen <andrew.knutsen@bluecoat.com> Tue, 24 May 2011 22:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [middisc] TCP middlebox option requirements
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On 5/24/2011 3:09 PM, Anantha Ramaiah (ananth) wrote:
>> >  
>> >        - Allocating standard types out of the same 8-bit space as the
>> >  vendor IDs.
> Well even then you need to sub-divide the space otherwise how else you
> would distinguish between them.
>

    No need to; interpretation of the rest of the option depends on that 
code, whichever sort it is.

Andrew

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