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Re: Question about TLV, subTLVs and length

To: "Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Question about TLV, subTLVs and length
From: George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:21:52 -0400
Cc: "Jeroen van der Ham" <vdham@science.uva.nl>, ccamp@ops.ietf.org
Cc: swallow@cisco.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:14:22 BST." <016b01c8050f$52c37a50$0200a8c0@your029b8cecfe>

> > I would think that the padding for the subTLV should be included in the
> > length of the enclosing TLV. Most of the time it is possible to deduce
> > the length, but if more than 4 bytes of padding are added, you run into
> > problems.
> 
> Exactly.

Actually 4 bytes or more (more than 3 bytes).

...George

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