Re: Ordering of NHRP extensions

"David C. Barnhart" <dcbii@raleigh.ibm.com> Fri, 03 May 1996 15:46 UTC

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James V. Luciani wrote:
> 
> Good idea! :-)  I actually suggested this (via proxy of Andy Malis)
> at the last European based IETF.  I explicitly asked for 2 things:
> 1) the extensions be placed in numerical order by type code

> What do folks think about the above suggestions?

This seems reasonable, but in that case maybe Vendor-private
extensions should have some larger type number, so that additional
later defined "standard" extensions will be in front of the possibly
multiple and variable-length Vendor-private extensions.

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