Shankar Agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me why the minimum value of the pointer in the LSSR option
> is 4. It says that it points to the next address with respect to the option
> field. Then shouldn't it be 3 (option type + length + pointer) rather then 4.
> Similarly for the pointer in the timestamp option it says that
> "The Pointer is the number of octets from the beginning of this
> option to the end of timestamps plus one (i.e., it points to the
> octet beginning the space for next timestamp). The smallest
> legal value is 5. The timestamp area is full when the pointer
> is greater than the length."
The pointers are 1-based, i.e., a pointer value of 1 would point to the
option type.
//cmh
