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Re: Vendor Private Extension

Bruce Cole <bcole@cisco.com> Tue, 11 July 1995 19:26 UTC

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To: James Luciani <luciani@nexen.com>
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Subject: Re: Vendor Private Extension
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> ROLCers,
>   
>   Since NHRP does not permit more than one instance of any given extension
> type, this places a bit of a constraint on the vendor private extension.
> What if a message traverses two vendors' NHRP speakers both of which wish to 
> include private information in the message?  It can't be done now.  

It can be done now, just as other extensions such as the forward NHS record
extension can be appended to by intermediate stations.  No need for more
explicit complexity here.

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