Re: Poll: Indicating tunnel capability
Roland Bless <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:26:33 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.nsis |
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| Organization | Institute of Telematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, Jukka Manner wrote: > 1. The current specification defines a generic NODE_CAPABILITY object > and introduces one flag to indicate tunnel support, T-bit: > > 0 1 2 3 > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > |A|B|r|r| Type |r|r|r|r| Length | > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > |T| Reserved | > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > > 2. The other option is to define a 0-length, no flags, object entitled > NODE_CAPABILITY_TUNNEL. The presence of this object implies support for > tunnels (no T-bit is needed, the whole 32-bit field is reserved). > > So, the question is: do we want to > > 1. keep this generic node capability object and introduce the first flag > for this object, the T-bit, or > > 2. introduce an object only for the tunnel capability? I vote for option 2. Regards, Roland