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Re: question about PIM Null-Registers

From: "Charles R. Anderson" <>
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Subject: Re: question about PIM Null-Registers
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:35:34 -0400

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 07:46:40PM -0700, Tom Pusateri wrote:
pusateri> We zero the dummy ip header and only fill in the source and group
address.
pusateri> This means the protocol type is 0 and there is no transport header.

Thanks. What about the TTL of the encapsulated Null packet? Is that
expected to be decremented once/twice like regular Register encapsulated
packets? Do you set the TTL to zero, or something else?

The pim draft isn't clear on these aspects.

Thanks.

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Charles R. Anderson
Network Engineer
Computing and Communications Center
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

question about PIM Null-Registers, Charles R. Anderson, 05/15/2003
- Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, Tom Pusateri, 05/15/2003
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    - Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, John Zwiebel, 05/19/2003
    - Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, Tom Pusateri, 05/19/2003
      - Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, Charles R. Anderson, 05/19/2003
        
        Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, Tom Pusateri, 05/19/2003
        
        Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, Charles R. Anderson, 05/19/2003
        
        Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, Tom Pusateri, 05/19/2003
        Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, Charles R. Anderson, 05/19/2003
        
        Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, Dino Farinacci, 05/19/2003
      - Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, Dino Farinacci, 05/19/2003
        
        Re: question about PIM Null-Registers, Tom Pusateri, 05/19/2003

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