All things related to multicast

["Charles R. Anderson" <>]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:16:58PM -0700, Tom Pusateri wrote:
pusateri> The spec doesn't say that it should be set to 20 or any other value.
pusateri> In fact, it only specifies that the group, source, and data length
pusateri> be set. The other fields are not specified in the spec. The data 
length
pusateri> should be set to zero it says.

I take that to mean that the length of the data portion of the packet is
zero, meaning that the IP total length (header + data) would be 20.

pusateri> So it seems that the pim working group should update the spec
pusateri> to more clearly specify which fields get set in a "dummy ip header"
pusateri> of a null register.
pusateri> 
pusateri> I'll add it to the agenda.

That's a good idea.  Thanks.

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