Re: protocol field according to RFC1661

John Bray <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.pppext
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At 08:07 PM 3/29/2004, Pavel Zeldin wrote:
>RFC1661 states (page 6):
>"The Protocol field is one or two octets,.."
>and further down
>"the least significant bit of the least significant octet MUST
>equal "1".  Also, all Protocols MUST be assigned such that the
>least significant bit of the most significant octet equals "0"."
>
>This does not quite work when protocol field is only one octet.

The Protocol Field is one octet only when Protocol Field Compression is 
applied (see section 6.5), which means the most significant octet of the 
Protocol ID is zero and has been omitted.

John




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