more flexible feature

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Ref: Your note of Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:30:31 -0400

Eric,
Do you (or anyone) see any real bugs in this change (add a mask)?
To summarize the change:  Add a mask field alongside the IP destination
field in the Purge packet.  No one has pointed out any real bugs
with this change...  This change adds *flexibility* to the purge feature.

I believe the comments you made about optimization are correct.

> Correct me if I am wrong, but I hadn't heard that any client could
> ignore purge messages.  In saying that purge protocol is an
> optimization, it was my understanding that the use of purge messages
> would be useful in reducing the effect of bad information retained by
> NHRP components but could not be relied on.  I believe that the issuer
> of a purge message can reasonably expect it to be used by any
> component that receives it.

-- Russell