Re: [OSPF] OSPFv2 option bit

"Santosh P K" <sanpk316@gmail.com> Wed, 03 October 2007 09:34 UTC

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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:04:10 +0530
From: Santosh P K <sanpk316@gmail.com>
To: Anton Smirnov <asmirnov@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [OSPF] OSPFv2 option bit
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Thanks a lot Smirnov :)



On 10/3/07, Anton Smirnov <asmirnov@cisco.com> wrote:
>  > its reserved. Out of all these three which one shall i consider.
>
> Consider exactly for which purpose? Education, implementation, new
> standard proposal? The answer depends.
>
> EA (External Attribute) never took off the ground, you can disregard it.
> LLS is in Experimental state now, not Standards track, that's the reason
> why it is not listed in IANA assignment.
>
>     Thanks,
>
> Anton
>
>
>
> Santosh P K wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >        I was going through the option bits of OSPFv2. I have couple of
> > doubts on this please clarify.
> >
> >
> >       In RFC 2328 in A.2  it says
> >                  +----------------------------------------------+
> >                   | * | * | DC | EA | N/P | MC | E | * |
> >                  +----------------------------------------------+
> >      That is
> >       Value   Description
> >         ------  ----------------
> >         0x01    Reserved
> >         0x02    E-bit
> >         0x04    MC-bit
> >         0x08    N/P-bit
> >         0x10    EA
> >         0x20    DC-bit
> >         0x40    Reserved
> >         0x80    Reserved
> >
> >
> >
> > In RFC 4813 OSPF Link-Local Signaling sec 2.1 it says
> >                     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
> >                      | * | O | DC| L |N/P| MC| E | * |
> >                     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-+-+
> >
> > That is
> >        Value   Description
> >         ------  ----------------
> >         0x01    Reserved
> >         0x02    E-bit
> >         0x04    MC-bit
> >         0x08    N/P-bit
> >         0x10    L-bit
> >         0x20    DC-bit
> >         0x40    O-bit
> >         0x80    Reserved
> >
> >
> >
> > In IANA document (http://www.iana.org/assignments/ospfv2-parameters)
> > last updated 2007-08-14 says
> >
> >
> >            Value   Description       Reference
> >              ------     ----------------       ---------
> >             0x01    MT-bit            [RFC4915]
> >             0x02    E-bit              [RFC2328]
> >             0x04    MC-bit           [RFC1584]
> >             0x08    N/P-bit           [RFC3101]
> >             0x10    Reserved
> >             0x20    DC-bit            [RFC1793]
> >             0x40    O-bit              [RFC2370]
> >             0x80    DN-bit            [RFC4576]
> >
> >
> > In all the three documents there is a conflict for bit  0x10, RFC 2328
> > uses it as EA bit , RFC 4813 uses it as L bit and IANA document says
> > its reserved. Out of all these three which one shall i consider.
> >
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > Santosh P K
> >
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