On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:28:37AM +0100, Erik Romijn wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:06:01AM -0500, Larry Blunk wrote: > > The IPV4_UNICAST_NLRI header is shown below. The Prefix Length > > and Prefix fields are encoded in the same manner as the BGP > > NLRI field. > > If this header is specifically for IPv4, why is the Prefix field not > simply 4 bytes?
Initial guess: depending on the prefix length, only the first few bytes are saved? (e.g. only the first 3 bytes for a /17-/24) Perhaps this should be mentioned in the text. cheers, -- Erik Romijn RIPE NCC jr. software engineer http://www.ripe.net/ Information Services dept.
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