Re: [Dime] rfc3588 query

["Glen Zorn" <gwz at net-zen.net>]

Vijay Iyengar [mailto://tnvee.vj at gmail.com] writes:

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> I have a question or I am confused.
> 
> The command flags as defined in Chapter 3 in RFC3588 are as below
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>        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
>       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>       |R P E T r r r r|
>       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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> How would exactly this look on the wire? Will be 0x80 or 0x01? I am
> getting confused with the illustration of the DIAMETER header format
> and the bits.

It _is_ different from the way in which bit are usually numbered in, for
example, computer science textbooks (where the bits are normally numbered
from right to left w/the least significant bit numbered zero (i.e., the
number of the bit corresponds to its binary exponent)).  In Diameter (and
RADIUS and PPP), bits are labeled in order of transmission, from left to
right.

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