Re: [pim] What is the value of 'infinity'
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Re: [pim] What is the value of 'infinity'



John Zwiebel wrote:
> But last thing on this:
> 
> In the bidir spec, the DF-election packet formats don't have an R-bit
> So infinity there would be 32-bits of 1.
> 
>  0                   1                   2                   3
>  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> |PIM Ver|  Type |Subtype|  Rsvd |       Checksum                |
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> |                    Encoded-Unicast-RP-Address
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...
> |                 Sender Metric Preference                      |
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> |                        Sender Metric                          |
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Right. Which is why I think the bidir spec should not say do the
comparison like PIM-SM which is probably where the confusion originates
and instead just spell it out itself.

Chris

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