Re: MARS last call: packet formats (fwd)

Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com> Tue, 14 November 1995 17:03 UTC

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James,

> on a single packet format for both NHRP and IP-MC.  I would welcome more
> comments from the group as to:
> 
> a) whether or not this is desireable and

It certainly would be nice to have this as a goal.

> b) how we should get to a single format.

IMHO as a first step we should settle on a single format for the
Registration message. If other folks think this is a reasonable first
step, then I'd like to get some feedback on whether it would be
reasonable to use the IP-MC packet format for registering both
multicast and unicast addresses.

Yakov.