Re: [manet] Encoding an IPv6 Mobile Network Prefix with PacketBB

[Thomas Clausen <T.Clausen at computer.org>]

On Jun 19, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:

> Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote:
> > > I came up with the datagram I present first.
> > I'm afraid I don't have time to comment on this.
>
> Thanks, I request MANET community to comment on that PAcketBB  
> encoding of the IPv6 Mobile Network PRefix - thank you.

I still do not think that it is clear what it is you are trying to  
encode, and your figure doesn't help. What is it that you are trying  
to do? In your figure, it seems that you are trying to have part of  
an address block header and then a TLV block followed by an IPv6  
address.....then another TLV block and some padding.

Doesn't look to me as this encoding would be compatible with  
packetbb, but if I understood what it was you were trying to do, then  
I am sure that it could be encoded.

Have you looked at draft-ietf-manet-packetbb (here's an URL: http:// 
www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-manet-packetbb-05.txt)  
section 5 for the description of the format, and  appendix A for  
illustrations? It should provide you with inspiration as to how you  
can encode things, once they're specified, and examples of how the  
actual layout would be in the familiar IETF-pictures.

If all you want is a single IPv6 prefix, then you'd benefit little  
from any aggregation, and a message TLV with explicit content might  
simply do the trick. But, I am not sure I understand if that is what  
you are looking for.

Thomas






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