Re: IP Header Validation (section 5.2.2)

Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> Thu, 13 April 1995 20:17 UTC

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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 13:04:19 -0700
To: Charles Burton <cburton@vnet.ibm.com>
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From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: IP Header Validation (section 5.2.2)
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At 3:52 PM 4/13/95, Charles Burton wrote:
>I hope this comment isn't too late.

preseumably, we can take this up with the RFC editor.

>In draft-ietf-rreq-cidr-03.txt, Revision 2.06, dated 3/30/95
>Section 5.2.2, IP Header Validation, states:
>
>      (5) The IP header length field must be large enough to
>           hold the IP datagram header, whose length is
>           specified in the IP header length field.
>
>Shouldn't this be, "The IP total length field must be . . ."?
>In RFC1716 it states:
>
>      (5)  The IP total length field must be at least 4 * IP header
>           length field.


Thanks

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IP Header Validation (section 5.2.2) Charles Burton
Re: IP Header Validation (section 5.2.2) Fred Baker